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What happens when business as usual is impossible?

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When millions in the Northeast lost power, cell service, Internet access, and running water due to Superstorm Sandy in October 2012, companies scrambled to find the answer. Source: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, November 12, 2012. A portable battery pack, good for about six phone chargings, would work.

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A New Digital Iron Curtain

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Gordon Crovitz, Information Age, The Wall Street Journal, December 17, 2012. The open Internet, available to people around the world without the permission of any government, was a great liberation. It was also too good to last. Authoritarian governments this month won the first battle to close off parts of the Internet. walks out of a U.N.

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Job Hunting Success Tips

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Considering the expansion of the Internet, powerful search engines, and social media, it should be much easier to match potential employees with employers. Sources: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, June 14, 2012 and. Yet since the 1970s, access to information has exploded. Apparently not. “We We find that in the U.S.,

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Grassroots Leadership by the Rising Middle Class

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A 2012 report by the European Union Institute for Security Studies, using a broader definition of middle class, predicted that the number of people in that category would grow from 1.8 They are technology-savvy and use social media like Facebook FB +0.89% and Twitter to broadcast information and organize demonstrations. billion).

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