Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

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  • California Dreaming

    TIME spotlights California on its cover this week. As a country, California would be with the G8 ( between Italy and Brazil, thus displacing BRIC with CRIC  i.e. California, Russia, India and China). Yet it has no world-class soccer team (despite having in-shored Beckham) just yet. That’s said, it is one of the brownest States…

  • Snapperizing

    The Nobel Prize winners this year are being honored for their work on fiber optic (which made possible  data transmission across the globe) and digital photography (pixel-driven process). Put the two inventions together with the rise of crowdsourcing, we got the phenomenon of  iPhoto, Flicker etc.. I am sure Facebook and Match.com are direct beneficiaries…

  • A billion bucks!

    Twittering to the tune of a billion bucks? http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2009/tc20090924_956402.htm?campaign_id=related_AK And the deficit changed slightly to the tune of 1.29 trillion bucks. Since when we are anesthetized to these huge dollar figures? But I must give it to the Lab geeks who came up with new inventions: copying over the distance (fax), texting over the phone…

  • low-emission Recession

    The Law of Unintended Consequences kicks in: we got 25% lower in carbon emission this past year, and maybe lower gas prices toward year-end. Extra cash for Christmas shopping: kids need shoes. Nation leaders are flying in to NY to attend a Summit on the Environment. Big boys (and powerful women) club. Hope they represent…

  • Apple in my eyes

      Everybody loves a winner. Today’s is Apple, starts with the “A” in the alphabet. Not bad for a college drop-out who then learned calligraphy, hung out with “evangelist” Kawasaki, forced out then came back to the tune of billions. He embodied the “I” in I-phone. I remember my first encounter with personal computers, and…

  • Fat pipe, fast food

    FIOS in Triple Play, for $79.00 for the first six months. The last time I looked, it was $100 for the Triple Play package: phone, TV and broadband. In China, kids played until they dropped dead (unwilling to lose their seats at the Internet cafe and online, where supposedly, they were up against competitors from…

  • white balance

    Digital TV is here. Selected reality represented by a series of 1’s and 0’s. I miss the Indian-head poster TV studios used to put up to “white balance” and signal align their cameras before each broadcast. The jump from analog TV to digital TV will be more significant than the jump from B/W to color…