In an event last spring in New York, I heard the story of a young man who received more than $90,000 for international software projects while he was collecting unemployment benefits. He hadn’t had a visible full-time job in three years. But without tools designed for the new knowledge world, the government was unable to track that he was working, right in his room, for a small software company in Vietnam.
A Faster Economy Needs Better Tools
In an event last spring in New York, I heard the story of a young man who received more than $90,000 for international software projects while he was collecting unemployment benefits. He hadn’t had a visible full-time job in three years. But without tools designed for the new knowledge world, the government was unable to […]
May 30, 2011