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The CIO as Corporate Psychic

Harvard Business Review

What impact will terahertz frequencies have on communication technologies? But overreliance on these firms leads to industry groupthink, and complexity-theory research tells us that it's impossible to predict the behavior of a large system (such as the world of tech innovation) beyond the next few moves.

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Four Keys to Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

He was convinced that this otherwise entirely pleasant socializing and socialization led invariably to a kind of groupthink among the community of experts. The rhymes may be about social patterns, the impact of technology, or how nations tend to adapt. His logic was simple. We all prize it. Study History.