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Media: The Old is New
April 26th, 2007
It is often valuable to have a grasp of history when looking to the future. Too often those that don’t have a historical perspective think that everything is new when in many cases what is new is a refurbished version of a past success model.
The other day Clear Channel Communications …
A Historic Day for Intellectual Property
April 24th, 2007
A recent column discussed the historical context for the emergence of intellectual property as the new and most important valuation of a company. While this point of view is becoming more main stream every day the current problem is that …
How Many Careers in a Lifetime?
April 19th, 2007
One of the many unique aspects of the time in which we live is that it is no longer unusual to have more than one career in a lifetime. Since the beginning of the Information Age 30 years ago it has been increasingly common for adults to have two or …
We Have Only Just Begun
April 17th, 2007
I have written several times about the fact that it was in 2006 that the U.S. crossed the tipping point on Global Warming. It has only been in the last year that the understanding of the global warming issue has become mainstream in this country. Two years ago it …
Intellectual Property is the New Valuation
April 12th, 2007
In the last 10,000 years there has been three ages of humanity. The first age was the Agricultural Age which began around 8,000 B.C. when humanity stopped be nomadic and began to put down roots, literally. The advent of agriculture allowed humanity to start to build a social fabric that …
