February 15, 2012
The Economist and Booz Allen Hamilton recently released the Cyber Power Index, an insightful look at the intersection of the digital economy, our physical infrastructure, and a skilled workforce.
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February 9, 2012
America is at a crossroads. Are we to become a "warfare/welfare state" or an "innovation nation"? By the way in which we choose to spend our resources and approach our greatest problems today we are making a choice for tomorrow.
January 17, 2012
On the eve of 2011, humanity was creating enough data each day to match all of the content in the Library of Congress -- 11,461 times over.
January 12, 2012
In Greenville, SC, a river runs through the past and the future of American manufacturing. On one side stands run-down and rusting towers of bygone factories. On the other side sit low-slung, long buildings churning out precision products for the likes of BMW and General Electric.
January 5, 2012
The digital age has been a boon for innovators and entrepreneurs. In a difficult economy, the small business heroes, inventors and pioneers who keep the American private sector at the head of the international pack are finding ways to do more for less, and the Internet is helping it happen.
January 3, 2012
December 27, 2011
Holiday jingles are advertising the latest tools and gadgets promising light-speed access to the digital world. The season offers businesses a chance to garner consumer dollars, a much needed shot of capital in a struggling economy.
December 5, 2011
The Aspen Institute is known for asking what I like to call "killer questions." Since Aspen is in the business of ideas, they know that questions have a way of focusing the mind on what we know and don't know, spurring on that tumbling, teaming process of
November 30, 2011
Ross DeVol, chief research officer at the Milken Institute, asked this question in
November 28, 2011
The Economist recently highlighted two gentlemen who are making a rather strange argument that they're titling the Race Against the Machine.