Messages into the future is something that people have always sought to do. In a way, it's a statement of optimism.
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Just as people, after the tsunami, deployed this ad hoc array of Internet boxes and sensor devices in Asia, they will come in this time and do it again.Paul Saffo
With more technologies, there are more choices. Choose wisely and well. You don't have to read every e-mail you get you need to develop your own rules of thumb and steps to sanity.
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The creative IT department is going to be where it's broken up so that IT people are out on the front lines.
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My nightmare fear is some congressman is going to seize on this and they're going to pass some laws, ... I can just see people overreacting and doing things that would invade people's privacy or tie up the Internet with so much security nonsense that innovation slows down.
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Adding new software and more people to reduce the cost of collaboration is great -- as long as it doesn't create even more work. To really ease the work overload -- and, not coincidentally, make corporations more nimble -- it's also essential to identify and eliminate unnecessary interactions. Sometimes people need to remind themselves that there is an off switch -- and use it, ... Solitude is the scarce resource in business lives -- having that time when you are disconnected and realizing that everything will go along fine without you.
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The irony, and I think this is true for all these labs, is a lot of these companies are like Moses. They led these industries to the Promised Land, but they're doomed to stay in the desert themselves.
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