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30 Failed Technology Predictions
Region: India1. There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home. Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), maker of big business mainframe computers, arguing against the PC in 1977. ... more
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The Great Leveling, Phase 1
Region: New MexicoThe guy interviewed on NPR this day said that once our “credit crunch” is resolved in America, people will race out and buy homes. He’s wrong, as are economists who believe this. Rapidly increasing ... more
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Profits in Collapse: the Detmer Curve
Region: New MexicoIt’s been an observable phenomenon dating back to the middle 80s: the less money you receive in salary while all other prices go up around you, the less money you have to spend as a consumer -- duh. Thus, the Detmer ... more
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Impotence of the Democrats
Region: New Mexico
What follows is an unflattering critique of America’s Democratic Party from one of its own. The party’s primary problems (no pun intended) sabotage its wannabe image as the Party of Change. W... more
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Greed Revisited
Region: United States
More and more it appears as if 2008 might become The Year The Truth Began To Be Spoken -- particularly in these United States. That’s sure to be a welcome transformational experience for a culture long steeped in smi... more
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The Coming Years
Region: United StatesThings just may begin to appear as if we human beings are bent on a sort of mass suicide. Yet given the chance, there’s another way to voyage through prospective hard times ahead sans the adjective, grim, being highl... more
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Where Citizen Journalism Will Go in 2008
Region: United States
If 2007 was the year citizen journalism proved its staying power, 2008 will be the year it evolves. The landscape now is promising, but homogeneous. From Newsvine and NowPublic to Orato and Digital Journal, one finds much ... more
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