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When Will this Low-Innovation Internet Era End?

Harvard Business Review

Then there's another view, which I heard from author Neal Stephenson in an MIT lecture hall last week. Stephenson was clearly trying to be provocative. A hundred years from now, he said, we might look back on the late 20th and early 21st century and say, "It was an actively creative society.

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Talking to Yourself (Out Loud) Can Help You Learn

Harvard Business Review

Or at least I do, and so I start searching for some sort of answer, spinning through the internet, reading up on how energy moves through water. AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson says technology workers need to learn online for at least five hours per week to fend off obsolescence. ” Here we draw a blank.