The Big Will Eat the Bigger

4 May 2009

I had a rather fascinating week last week, moving from a book party at Arianna Huffington’s, where Google CEO Eric Schmidt happened by, to the Accenture International Energy Conference in Vancouver, where Alan Greenspan and I were speakers.  Alas, I only had enough time to do a couple of talks on the first morning, asking [...]

An Open Letter to the Board of Directors

13 April 2009

An Open Letter to the Board of Directors
Last week, I gave a keynote talk at the CRIM Crystal Ball Conference in Montreal, and the speech seemed to be really well received. I had decided ahead of time that the best way to talk about today’s problems was to have a frank conversation about how the [...]

Tech Alone Is Boring

24 March 2009

I’ve been noticing something about my own interests, changing or evolving over the last few years.  I’ve always been interested in science, the responsible (usually) and exotic parent of technology, the applied stepchild.  In fact, when I was a kid I never thought of technology: science was everything.
After all, all technology is is the application [...]