Business

The Bandwidth Gap

One of the downsides of the insularity of the American culture and the self-enclosed European culture is its bounding effect on opportunity space thinking. One example that is easy to illustrate is in technology. People in the post-development societies of…

Mis-Invention

Legend has it that when Thomas Edison created his phonograph he conceived of it as a method to record and playback messages between individuals. Legend also has it that Alexander Graham Bell envisioned the telephone as a device useful for transmitting…

How Not To Do It

Check out this home page: http://www.lijit.com/ Tell me if you have a friggin’ clue what they do. So, since it’s a huge mystery, you click on “about” http://www.lijit.com/about I don’t know that I’ve ever read anything that said so much…