Notes and Videos

Mark Anderson's Programme in Technology and the Economy

It is now well-known that virtually all trained economists missed predicting the most important (and large-scale) economic event of the last 50 years: the current decline...

Special Letter: Decoding Animal Languages

This week's Special Letter is focused on a discovery which deserves much more attention than it has received to date. Thanks to author Con Slobodchikoff, humans have, for...

The Telequipment Sector: A Lesson in Economic Destruction

There was a time in human memory when Lucent was the big kid on the block. A hot company, a hot stock to own, run by some very savvy executives.

Education Beyond Technology

Today, at a time when the incorporation of basic internet connection technology in K-12 schoolrooms is accepted as a "When, not if" proposition, almost all of the...

Asia Letter, Q3 2012: Nuclear Summer

In early May, the last of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors was shut down for inspection. On July 1, the No. 3 reactor at the Oi nuclear power plant, located on the Japan Sea...

Zero Footprint: A New Model Linking Energy and Materials

A few years ago, I had the honor of keynoting a Warburg Pincus conference on energy in Houston, Texas. I told this group of oil and gas executives that they had to...

Device Battles, IP Wars

Apple is a much more interesting company than most people realize. While the public remains fascinated with how cool its designs are, and the increasing cult appreciation...

Technology Driving the Economy: The Dark Side

We are now at a point in the story of our global economy when we must pass a test. Since it is clear that those with power and money cannot regulate themselves, and that...

A Centerpiece Conversation with Mark Hurd; "The New Frontier: Simplify IT"

Mark Hurd and I have had a longstanding friendship, beginning with his time as CEO of Hewlett-Packard. Before we met, I was already working with NCR and Teradata, his home...

Defining Perfection in Human/Computer Interaction or Why I Sold My Apple Stock

In a number of issues in the last few months, I have suggested that Apple would be a Sell. I thought (and still think) that the stock would continue to rise for up to two...
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