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Visualizations of Air Traffic over the United States. Watch the East Coast wake up with a fury. (HT: Cafe Hayek)
Why did you go to Elementary School? Middle School? High School? College? Was it to memorize historical dates so you could recall them on demand and demonstrate your intelligence? Was it to memorize equations so you could plug in numbers and get answers from a calculator?
Is the purpose of school to fill […]
Blockbuster has over 8500 corporate and franchise stores in 28 countries. What if they ran fiber from one of those locations to every home and apartment building within a 1/4 of a mile?
Now, before you shoot me down as crazy, know that I agree with you; this is a little nuts. But bear […]
Americans are abandoning the moviegoing habit for good.
So says George Lucas to Variety. He thinks that to remain successful in the film business of the future, you need to create lots of quality content with smaller budgets for smaller audiences. The idea that you can spend a ton of money on production and […]
Search Engine Watch’s Danny Sullivan raises some interesting questions about Natural Language Search and a new entrant, Powerset. Fundamentally, what do users want from a search engine?
George Lucas has some interesting thoughts on the movie business. What are the implications for Movie Theaters?
IBM To Open Up Patent Filings: What are the Possibilities?
1 Comment Published by Ontologi in Why Not?.Over on Maneuver Marketing, Mike Smock comments on IBM’s announcement that they will publish their patent filings online before the patent is awarded. Keeping such filings a secret from competitors is usually the obvious way to go.
The innovation cornerstone for most enterprises is technology and intellectual property. Of course innovation is not limited to […]
Cities need cars in the middle of 10 million people like a fish needs a bicycle.
That quote contains the words of Dean Kamen from the same Time Magazine interview from our last post. He continues:
The reason I moved to a city is I wanted high density. I don’t want to be spread out from […]
If all new technology starts out in a niche, why create a mass market hype storm for your technology?
This is the question we’d like to put to Dean Kamen after reading his Time Magazine interview. His Segway Human Transporter has not enjoyed the sales that the hype before its launch implied.
The “it” device, the […]
As we discussed in the last post, another name for a disruptive innovation is an untouchable reorientation because it flips what’s valuable and what’s not and it’s initially perceived as inferior making it most undesirable for potential competitors.
So let’s take a look at the Airline industry and flip a few fundamental features upside-down. We’re […]
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