tech and multi-cultural marketing
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We have “verb-ized” a lot of tech names: xerox, google; in essence, we turn the brand into a verb. Pretty soon, we will “chrome” things i.e. from 0 to 65 miles in 6 seconds, getting to the on-ramp of the web. The need for speed.” You’ve got mail ” now a thing of the past.Talking…
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40 years ago, no housewife could figure out what to do with the Honeywell computers sitting on their kitchen counters. Today, we don’t have enough computing power to satisfy our ever-increasing demand for streaming media and other new apps. Over the past few days, I found out that McNamara brought more computing power to the…
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People have paid lips service to freedom, the defense of freedom, and the exercise of free speech. But few put any thought on the price of freedom. Freedom somehow is perceived as being free (i.e. you don’t have to pay anything, in economic terms). Actually, freedom costs a lot. Many lives have been laid down…
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I didn’t have to buy it. The office people pooled the money and bought it for me as a birthday gift. See, I was a volunteer interpreter for the Bureau of Child Welfare at Indian Town Gap, Pennsylvania. It’s my first stop in America. While awaiting my own processing (getting my high school diploma and …
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WSJ had an article on how a bank run affected the Amish community (Indiana). http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124640811360577075.html I guess if anybody emerged unscathed during this long Recession, it would be the Amish people. After all, they have been staying off the grid, much less finding themselves anywhere near Madoff. But truth be told. even these “plain” folks…
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X-Vice President Cheney signed a book deal to “tell it all” about his bureaucrat career in Washington (and as CEO at Halliburton). I hope he will devote a page or two to the (mis) shooting incident from his “point of view”. And mostly about his sudden disappearance when the nation needed him most during 9/11.…
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Moses spent 40 years in the wilderness. Honeywell computer debuted 40 years ago as a kitchen appliance. and Woodstock was happening during summer 1969. That year, simultaneous demonstrations in D.C. and S.F. to protest ( Hell no, we won’t go) against the war in Vietnam. Now we start counting down toward the end of this…
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It’s been 40 years since Woodstock. Many of those half a million attendees are now nearing retirement, i.e. turning off the engine and letting it slide into the deck. There will be a lot of “see me, tweet me” (touch deprivation, not to mention social isolation) because as statistics show, many retired CIA employees died…
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It’s been a long way since Sixteen Candles. In it, we found Long Duk Dong, the male Asian actor, portrayed a Japanese exchange student who wrecked the host family car on a night out “what auto-mobile?” he asked laying on the front lawn at mid morning the next day. Fast forward to today and the…
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Yesterday I reposted “Invisible Man“. Today, it’s about “invisible hand“. There is an invisible hand that definitely plays with events in history, and this Adam-Smith-like hand seems to run out of tricks every 40 years or so, so it seems. In Understanding Vietnam (Berkeley Press), we learn that history seems to recycle itself every 40 years…
Thang Nguyen 555 