The ancient Oxford College All Souls, founded in 1438, has since 1932 been giving a one word exam as part of a two day battery of admissions tests. Imagine what it is like to look at the page, see the word “charity” and have...
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein Deep innovation is really hard. If you have ever swum in the open ocean, far from any shore, and at depths too deep to plumb, you know the visceral feeling of...
Earlier this week, in a hot New York City, I was having some tea and lemonade with a dear friend who is a senior publishing executive. When our conversation turned to exploring the future of publishing she said, “our folks say our core value...
Nothing happens until somebody sells something. — Anonymous I admit it. I love salespeople. There are few things more precious to an enterprise than someone who can create demand. I have also been using my iPad for a couple months now, and as someone...
Recently, a team consisting of MIT students, along with Pratt & Whitney and Aurora Flight Science Corporation announced a radical new design for a jetliner which would take about 1/4 the amount of fuel consumed by today’s planes. It made me wonder, what are...
At this year’s cable show, Comcast CEO Brian Roberts demonstrated, the iPad as the new remote control for your for your video experience. Above is ABC’s iPad application. The device is not only the world’s coolest remote control, it allows you to program your...
Yesterday was the 127th anniversary of the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, and I confess I love her. To me The Brooklyn Bridge is the pinnacle of practical beauty brought to us by commerce and engineering crafted with the passion of a family dedicated...
Coke & Pepsi are very active in social media and I think their hard work is helping to build up a “trust bank” with their audience. As has been widely reported, Pepsi took their Superbowl ad budget and instead of creating a set of...
I believe we will see a 10,000 to 100,000 increase in the number of computers, phones, devices and living things attached to the internet in the next 5-10 years — what many are calling “the internet of things“. We have probably already passed the...
On a recent, gorgeous day in New York City I walked from Bergdorf Goodman at 59th Street & 5th Avenue past Cartier on 52nd street and continued down 5th Avenue for over a mile. Because I was preparing for a speech I was scheduled...