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Albertson is your store. No wonder you just walked in, took the items, and walked out (after paying the machines). http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/officehours/2011/jul/12/albertsons-will-take-self-checkout-lanes-out-stores-doesnt-affect-area-albertsons-stores/ I still remember having lunch at Woolworth, or stopping at full-serve stations back East. “coffee refill?” ” oil check?” We are heading toward a self-serve nation (or as in a recent feature in the WSJ,…
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Load balancing, redundancy, follow-the-sun operation centers etc.. to be topped up by cloud. We did that with business phones (Centrex), and mainframes. More than a third of North American phones are now smart phones, with computational power not unlike earlier version of our desktops. When Turing and Shannon conceived a “thinking machine”, they were just happy if…
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Ishiguro, Fukuyama, Kawasaki and Murakami. I read Ishiguro in bed, watched Fukuyama on Charlie Rose, watch Kawasaki interview on his latest book Enchantment and dream on with characters in Murukami’s novels. Multi-media tutors. They might look Asian, but speak and write perfect English. Best of both worlds. Like Singapore or Hongkong. Ishiguro penned beautiful prose and plot, that…
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World’s oldest woman. 115 years old. Oldest man, from Japan, 116 years old. Life expectancy in 1900 was 47. World population has increased drastically. (Bio tech century). At the nano level, we can detect early symptoms of all sorts of disease (nano pharma). Ironically, as the West is more aware of health issues and is taking…
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WSJ most read article is “Why people can’t make decision” (see my other blog, “buy-in behaviors”). I also found another article that reinforces this period of indecision: companies are saving the money they borrowed at bank’s low rates, thus fail to spur the economy. Why would people borrow money at low rates, then sit on…
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We all need a “third place” (neither home nor office) to let our hair down. It used to be Cheers-like place “where everybody knows your name“. And lately, it’s been Starbucks, which struck a yuppie nerve (male and female). With the lingering recession, I suspect that jokes will have to start with “a girl walks…
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