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If Rip Van Winkle woke up today, he would be surprised to see Facebook. If he had waken up a decade ago, he would have read about Google.And the decade before that, Microsoft. Except this time, Mark Zuckerberg is much younger than the other founders, dominated the media landscape quicker . And he donated part…
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My kid’s elementary school is collecting lip balms to send to our troops overseas. It struck me that we spend our entire life trying to do good, from small gestures to larger ones, only to see others take it away in an instant. I saw the beautiful picture of the 9/11 girl whose life ended…
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The Economist has a timely expose on “the Tale of two expats”. http://www.economist.com/node/17797134 It is written from a British perspective. If it were for the US, an entire section would have to be added in (given the background of Chinese Exclusion Act, the Japanese Internment Camp, and 80’s Yellow Peril). It’s hard for America to…
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The camera panned jerkily (watch You Tube) as the Four Brothers sang away their classic hit, Green Fields. The comments section was led by “I miss my papa, this was one of his favorites”. The Greatest Generation, and now the Boomer Generation, are slowly but surely fading away. Gone with them are the many lessons…
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“Being There” was first released years ago. Peter Sellers portrayed an illiterate gardener who had been walled in all his adult life. His only window to the world was through the TV screen. Hence his speech and demeanor replicated sound bites and screen gestures (awaiting for a “cut” to commercials). Shirley McClain played a society…
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Mongolian Khan, upon his first day out of jail, jumped on the horse to lead his nation to new height. Lennon and Yoko still purchased full-page ad in the NYT to run the same poster as they did 40 years ago “WAR IS OVER, if you want it”. With the new digital order, thought-leaders emerged…
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We are diamond in rough cuts. 7 billion of us. The stats show the costs of raising a child in the US at roughly $200,000. With educational score cards showing flat line, while other countries are on the up tick (albeit Shanghai focused on rote learning and test preparation), policy makers might have to offshore…
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With YouTube, Skype Video and 4-G network, we will be watching a lot of video. Some content was finally “remastered” to be added on to the collective archive in the cloud. Yet, we neglect to clean our lenses and learn to see as if for the first time. The sense of wonder, curiosity, marvel, or…
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USA Today featured an article about how our lives are inundated with “always on” connectivity at the cost of real face to face interaction. Robert Redford was quoted in WSJ saying: “As I’ve gotten older I’ve become intensely aware of the cost of wasting time. I don’t want to be a Luddite, but I don’t…
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