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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Tag Archives: flat
Google to build multiple fiber cities ?
Google may launch more than one “fiber city” in America. This cyberinfrastructure project could will be a tipping point for a few lucky cities.
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Tagged access, america, bandwidth, broadband, change, culture, cyberinfrastructure, economy, Education, fibre, flat, future, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Network, tipping point, trends, US
My latest read – Ahead of the Curve
The title of Philip Delves Broughton’s Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School was interesting enough to jump on my reading list but when I began to see his book mentioned in blogs and on twitter I pulled it from my wish list and dropped it into my cart. It was not [...]
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Tagged banking, BMW, borderless world, broughton, case studies, competing in a flat world, daily telegraph, elite training, flat, flat world, future, Google, harvard business school, harvard commencement, harvard mba, jobs, losing touch, mba candidate, research, singapore, venture capital
Shipping today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Today Tom Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America is available.
The 1.0 release was a very interesting read (my review here) and I’m looking forward to the update.
Check out Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 online in PDF format.
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Tagged america, bandwidth, china, crowd, flat, Green, green revolution, india, Innovation, k12, knowledge, the world is flat, toledo, tom friedman, trends
My latest read – The Post-American World
Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World is an enjoyable read. Most would recognize his CNN show Fareed Zakaria GPS. He has also participated in the World Economic Forum in Davos. The bottom line: The US is not falling behind, but rather quite simply the world is catching up. Some amazing technologies are lifting the citizens of [...]
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Tagged africa, american soil, china, citizens, cnn, Education, educational system, energy, fareed zakaria, flat, free tools, future, global economy, global students, green revolution, india, information, Innovation, innovation technology, mark steyn, population, population growth, poverty, religious groups, Technology, terrorist group, terrorist organization, the world is flat, third world countries, tom friedman, war in iraq, warlords, water pumps, world economic forum
My latest read – Planet India
India is the second fastest growing economy in the world, second only to their Asian neighbor China. Both have embraced globalization yet are racing to secure resources as their economies, populations, markets and environments grow out of control. India has the second largest population with almost 1.5 billion citizens.
My understanding of India’s impact on the [...]
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Tagged china, culture, economy, Education, flat, Globalization, india, Infosys, Technology, trends
Jump in line…NOW
Tom Friedman’s book will be one of the hot reads this fall.
Order yours today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America
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Tagged america, flat, friedman, Green, revolution
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
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