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How New Technologies Push Us Toward the Past

Harvard Business Review

Think through the implications of these technologies, however, and an even more startling vision emerges: the future will look more like the past. Walmart stores and office buildings are essentially giant file cabinets where shoppers and workers go to get and exchange information.

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What’s Wrong with the FAA’s New Drone Rules

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the FAA had originally promised the rules by 2011, but it proceeded to miss every deadline it set for itself , as well as those established by Congress. In stark contrast, the last four years have seen continued improvement in drone technology, much of which cannot be put to use. In Washington, business as usual.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

But as the digital revolution continues to spark widespread disruption in other industries — automotive, financial services, health care, and retail — who will win? The Information Technology Industry Council has identified at least 22 laws in 13 European countries that regulate the localization of data.

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It's Time for Tenure to Lose Tenure

Harvard Business Review

A 2011 study of teaching practices at the University of Texas at Austin indicated that UT Austin alone potentially could save $266 million a year if it could get half its professors to be as productive in teaching as the top 20%, fire its least productive faculty, and shift their small workload to other professors.