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Friday, Feb 01, 2002

inuition

atanarjuat

kurzweilding

ray kurzweil -- accelerating intelligence

frankie bones

"The Chairman of the Carlyle Group, Frank Carlucci, was not only a former Secretary of Defense in the Reagan Administration, but a Deputy Director of the CIA during the Carter Administration. In fact, Carlucci's career in Washington provides some insight into the intersection between foreign and domestic policy in the Cold War years. Moreover, Carlucci's particular trajectory through the government and into private industry reveals much about the meaning and influence of the military-industrial complex in the past and continuing policies of the United States at home and abroad."

more and moore

"Today silicon is king. But if computers are going to keep up with Moore's law, they'll need something better."

developing news

sci dev net

get your war on

"Geraldo had to go all the way to Afghanistan to get lost in the "fog of war," and look how much that little episode cost all of us. If the self-hating self-promoter had really wanted to learn about confusion, at a more reasonable cost, he could have just stayed home and read the war blogs."

on wax

download this -- bootylicious v. smells like teenspirit

disruption

"What can all companies take away from your study of the newspaper industry and its response to the Internet challenge?

Again, disruption creates net total growth. As I work with so many companies responding to disruptive technology, their overwhelming response is to focus on the potential losses created by disruption. In fact, the time from when a disruptive technology initially emerges to the time it eventually attacks an established market can be quite substantial. In the mainframe computer example, minicomputers were launched in 1967, and even though unit sales quickly passed mainframe unit sales, dollar sales did not eclipse mainframe sales until the late 1980s. Mainframe dollar sales did not have double year declines until the early 1990s. Thus, both markets continued to grow for some time after the initial emergence of the disruptive technology."

zooted

"Carcass feeding, like other forms of enrichment, represents a change of philosophy for zoos, requiring keepers to give up some control so their animals can have more. Some Folsom City Zoo animals refuse to go inside at night while feeding on a carcass. Cats sometimes scuffle over meat, so far without injury. After gorging, animals shun their zoo diet for a few days."

shine on

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