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Technology
Silicon Valley: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
Robin Lewis
August 29, 2018
The refrain in William Shakespeare’s Song of the Witches from Macbeth was originally written: “Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” It ...
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Unmanned Stores
Len Lewis
August 19, 2018
It’s late Sunday night in the remote Swedish village of Viken and you suddenly realize you’re out of baby food. Local stores are closed, the ...
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Amazon Started It
Robin Lewis
August 9, 2018
Amazon coined “the last mile” as the most important, complex and costly last leg of distribution. Their goal: speed of delivery within hours, or less. ...
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Kroger’s Little Car Experiment
David Merrefield
July 24, 2018
Every now and then news crosses my desk that seems so unlikely that I suspect it might be a hoax. Of course, that happens with ...
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Handle with Care: A Roadmap to Successful Tech Adoption
Elizabeth Shobert
July 4, 2018
I’ve been to enough trade shows and conferences to know how excited people get about new technology. Whatever’s freshly minted and has a couple of ...
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Invasion of the Homebots
Len Lewis
June 11, 2018
How many of you are following the conversations between Vladimir and Estragon? I doubt many have the time to get involved in yet another inane ...
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Facebook and Creepy Tech
Robin Lewis
May 2, 2018
I spoke to a class of about 20 millennials this week at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology). When I got to the part where I ...
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Insights, Innovation and Conjecture from SXSW Interactive 2018
Sarah Holbrook
April 8, 2018
The key learnings from SXSW 2018, which took place in Austin, Texas in mid-March, were both exciting and challenging. The interactive festival, which has become ...
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