The Horizons Tracker
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality. Changing knowledge work.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 4, 2012
It was inspired by comments from author Neal Stephenson, who espoused the latter view in a Q&A at MIT. So I wrote a piece juxtaposing the Stephenson/Cowen view with the work of MIT's Erik Brynjolfsson, who has been amassing evidence that a digitization-fueled economic revolution is in fact beginning to happen. And why not?
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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 27, 2012
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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 7, 2016
As AT&T CEO and Chair Randall Stephenson, recently told the New York Times, “There is a need to retool yourself, and you should not expect to stop… People who do not spend five to 10 hours a week in online learning will obsolete themselves with the technology.” Again, AT&T is a great example.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2018
Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device. For example, for a company with almost no manufacturing capacity of its own, the iPhone could not exist without heavy commitments from key suppliers. You were betting on Steve Jobs.”
Harvard Business Review
JULY 9, 2013
As Michael Stephenson , a key leader in global customer programs at Oracle puts it, his firm has various business units that focus on specific industries. For example, all sorts of relevant trade journals and entities have awards programs. Often, the key customers in these areas aren''t the everyday brand names.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 10, 2017
Conscious that breaking the silence begins with their own example, captains of industry are talking about race, both internally with their employees and externally with the public. But as evidenced by the formation of the coalition and the initiatives we captured in our report, that attitude is shifting.
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