It’s too early to predict the final outcome of the still unfolding accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site that began with the heartbreaking tsunami on 3/11/11. But we do know several things; a) there is by any reasonable measure de minimus broad public risk, b) there will be substantial economic costs to Japan, and c) there…
IBM’s supercomputer Watson performed quite a stunt on Jeopardy last week. A match between the two all-time human champs and some 200,000 watts of computing power took the man-machine challenge to a new level. The computer won, handily. But that’s not news.
Permit herein, one more addition to the pantheon of paeans from personal experience on this day, the 100th Birthday of one of America’s great presidents. There are a lot of people – a number I count as friends – with the enviable first-hand experience of working directly for President Reagan. Then there is a multitude who…
Serious events eventually lead to serious consequences. It’s still too early to tell how things will shake out in Egypt. But one collateral impact has been a reminder of what’s at stake in energy markets. Not because of Egypt’s de minimis oil production, but because of geopolitics. There are already renewed calls for doing something about America’s…
Job creation continues to be the seminal issue of our time. The scale of the requirement is daunting. We need an economy that can not only keep employed the 155 million working today, but can find jobs for another 15 million over the next decade. How both can happen is obvious if we just look…
The 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was abuzz with wireless broadband – the unfettered Internet, released from the bondage of desktop computing. Most of the news focus and appetite for devices and bandwidth is driven by social networking and video-everywhere. Hot, hot, hot. Maybe the next Big Thing. Big enough to inspire Qualcomm’s [NASDAQ: QCOM]…
