The Failed Promise of Innovation in the U.S.

By Michael Mandel
During the past decade, innovation has stumbled. And that may help explain America's economic woes

Проблемы будут

Не стоит требовать от человека многого. Он сотворен из куска праха, он набит смертными грехами и плохо пахнет без дезодоранта. Есть, однако же, некоторый минимум.

Для мужчины это — способность отвечать за свои слова.

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How the Mighty Fall

How the Mighty Fall: A Primer on the Warning Signs
Decision Driven Design: it's not about "big company", it's all about leadership.

(c) Kraftwerk

Computers always perform live

Warning

Warning: Dates on calendar are closer than they appear
(c) forums.3drealms.com

Duke Nukem Forever

Once upon the time 3DRealms added a new dimension to flat/trivial (2D) user experience - depth of story and character, depth of virtual world (interactivity). But adding yet another dimension to state of the art 3D-gaming universe turned out to be mission impossible.

Perhaps 3D is all that's available to human creativity. Humans can not grasp eternity, therefore completing 3DRealms' Duke Nukem 4D=Forever will be chasing after the wind.

And no, we don't need another Duke Nukem 3D from different developer. Adding dimensions is all that matters for hardcore Duke Nukem fans as much as for George Broussard and Scott Miller.

Why Social Networks Are Bad Businesses

Investors assumed that any medium with such a large number of users has to become a huge business. Millions and millions of users must be worth something. They can't be worth nothing. That couldn't be possible. Because Facebook and MySpace are so pervasive and such a significant part of online culture, the press is endlessly fascinated by what goes on at the companies. Word got out that Facebook was raising money. Then it fired its chief financial officer. Analysts started to speculate that the company was low on cash. Facebook, of course, said that no such thing was true. (Read "25 Things I Didn't Want to Know About You.")

What is true is that social network sites have had trouble making money.

Marketers don't want want a collection of people with no common purpose other than to share with one another.

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