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Silicon Valley: Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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