In 1993, a US scientist named Vernor Vinge wrote an essay entitled “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in[…]
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In 1993, a US scientist named Vernor Vinge wrote an essay entitled “The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in[…]
Read more“If you build it, he will come.” So said the disembodied voices in the iconic 1980s baseball fantasy Field of[…]
Read moreOver the last few years, “showrooming” has received a bad rap. This is the practice where a smartphone-enabled shopper goes[…]
Read moreBusiness is often about ‘exploring the limits of compromise’, as a colleague of mine used to say. This is particularly[…]
Read moreFor some, the annual “Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity” is a throwback to the “glory days” of advertising. Oceans[…]
Read moreSomething weird happened on an otherwise ordinary Wednesday in July in New York City. A switch flicked. A baton was[…]
Read more“There’s something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.” The lyrics to the 1967 Buffalo Springfield protest anthem popped[…]
Read moreTo find surprising retail in a foreign city, you often have to do a little digging. You have to be[…]
Read moreA pair of giggling Japanese twenty-somethings pose in front of a virtual mirror in the strangely but aptly named “Humor[…]
Read moreFor all the detractors of the Click Frenzy online shopping event (the Twitter hashtag #clickfail pretty much sums it up),[…]
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