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26 Aug 08

Dwelling in Possibilities

"They live to multiply possibilities. They're enemies of closure. For as much as they want to do and actually manage to do, they always strive to keep their options open, never to shut possibilities down before they have to."

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  • They live to multiply possibilities. They're enemies of closure. For as much as they want to do and actually manage to do, they always strive to keep their options open, never to shut possibilities down before they have to.
  • Everyone now who is worth his tuition money double majors: The students in my classes are engineering/English; politics/English; chemistry/English.
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11 Apr 08

A VC: We Need A New Path To Liquidity

"there is another private liquidity market under development called Opus-5. The idea behind both of these new emerging (and currently illiquid) markets is to provide a place for private equity investors to trade securities with each other."

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28 Mar 08

Data Loss Database

List of major incidents where personal data was stolen or compromised

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03 Mar 08

Digital downloads will be Blu-ray's downfall

"Blu-ray won't enjoy the same decade-long dominance DVD did after it succeeded VHS.... instead of buying discs from Amazon, Best Buy or Wal-Mart, people will begin getting their entertainment in the form of digital downloads in larger volumes"

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25 Feb 08

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

"money is not the only scarcity in the world. Chief among the others are your time and respect ... we now have a handy way to convert from reputation (PageRank) to attention (traffic) to money (ads).... and Google plays the role of central banker"

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04 Dec 07

a flight across Europe for $10 is indistinguishable from magic

"Is there really such a thing as a free lunch? Actually, there sometimes is. Craigslist really is free. Wikipedia really is free. [...]. It's all thanks to a combination of the falling technology costs of Moore's Law with the Gift Economy."

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04 Oct 07

Whats the Future of the Music Industry? A Freakonomics Quorum

"So what really happened to the music industry, and what will it look like in five or ten years?" - 5 perspectives

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24 Apr 06

LIFT06 || Life, Ideas, Futures. Together. || 2-3 Feb. 2006, Geneva, Switzerland

"a conference about new technologies and people [...] organized around five major topics": Big Ideas, Design, Emerging Technologies, Global Solidarity and the Internet

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