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New Florence. New Renaissance.

Vinnie Mirchandani on global technology innovation and impact on how we work, live and play


Laser Wi-Fi?Today
“Mohsen Kavehrad, an electrical engineer at Pennsylvania State University in University Park and his team have been working on an optical transmission system that is capable of high data-transmission rates. One problem with using light is that you normally need...
The .com25March 9
“In the last 25 years, .com has transformed nearly everything in our worlds from the way we shop, connect with our communities, make weekend plans, engage with our government, educate our children and even how we think!” “As part of...
Book excerpts: Chapter 0March 7
As promised, here is the first set of excerpts from my upcoming book, The New Polymath due in June. This time it is from the “front matter” – the preface, acknowledgments etc. I also have included below the summary Table...
The new world of Social CRMMarch 7
Altimeter Group publishes 18 use cases to prepare many companies for the scary new Social Customer - study co-author Jeremiah Owyang describes some of the challenges on his blog: For companies, real time is not fast enough. Companies need to...
The Earth ScorecardMarch 6
"However you cut it, our life-support systems are not in good shape. Three of nine boundaries - climate change, biodiversity and nitrogen fixation - have been exceeded. We are fast approaching boundaries for the use of fresh water and land,...