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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Sir Chaplin showed it best in “Modern Times”. Jacques Ellul took a step further to analyze all things “technique”. The 70’s OPEC oil embargo triggered cost-cutting craze, starting with the elimination of gas station full-service to Smart cars and EVs. I took a trip this past Thanksgiving. At rest…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: OK, I took a picture standing next to the convertible SAAB I won, but I took the cash option ( for grad student loan). Now, this brand, along with Pontiac and Saturn, will soon be relics of the past. We have a lot of In’s/Out’s at the end of…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: When lunching near Dulles Airport years ago, we ran into some Teleglobe colleagues who had gone over to AOL. Back then, I looked at those guys with a bit of envy. After all, we were just a voice backbone. Those guys were in their honeymoon with Time Warner, both…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Remember Nightline when it first debut? Satellite uplink made possible real-time, split-screen dialogue, with multi-continental guests and in-studio moderator. Safer than appearing on Jerry Springer (which need at least two or three bouncers). Now we have video upload from crowd source. We have moved beyond “lonely girl” in front…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: ABC News last broadcast of 2009 featured some celebrities we have lost, among them, one of its own: Peter Jennings. Peter’s most memorable quote:: “when I look at a coin, instinctively, I want to flip it to see the other side”. He used to take a bunch of books…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Train, plane or automobile, we all try to get somewhere, point A to point B. Far enough to be looked at as “foreigner”. The Economist has a piece on this subject to highlight the decade of globalization. http://www.economist.com/world/international/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15108690&source=hptextfeature I was surprised to find Vietnam, especially in HCMC and Hanoi,…
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By now, you can still see a few weather-beaten cyclos around albeit restricted to tourist quarters. I still remember the sound of horse carriage in the streets of old Saigon. My kid will be lucky if she knows what a cyclo is. She knows Google though. Paperless and painless search. Now with semantic search. My profile, age in particular, triggers online ads on…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: The Economist Christmas Special was about America, a Ponzi scheme that works. http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15108634&source=hptextfeature It projects 1 Billion Americans by 2100. With its many niches, America seems to offer a bit of everything, for everybody: hunting, boozing, gambling, church-going and freedom to protest. I remember my first Christmas, living humbly…
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In the 70’s, the Me decade, we heard “All by myself” a lot on the radio. Now, it’s the age of collaboration. All by ourselves. Whiteboarding, synergy and M&A. Nokia, Sony and Dell. All are taking the back seat. Players we did not see coming are now in the field: Haier, Acer and Lenovo. Users…
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Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Innovator’s Dilemma is when incumbents grow complacent and are challenged by emerging forces that disrupt and destroy them. Gary Hamel in The Future of Management urges constant reinvention of management principles e.g. decision-making be pushed to the outer edges. The point is, leaders are listeners, not lecturers. That’s hard! For centuries, we are…
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