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. It’s a market that is already worth $3.1
Harvard Business Review
JULY 14, 2017
Daniel Suarez’s novel Change Agent describes a near future in which synthetic biology has reshaped every industry. It’s an illustration of how, just as the internet didn’t stop at revolutionizing the computer industry, the impacts of advances in synthetic biology won’t be limited to biotech.
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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
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.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 9, 2013
Dreams arise of having the marquee customer interviewed by industry publications, speaking about your great offerings at conferences, featured in case studies and success stories, providing references that close multiple deals, participating in your customer communities. But it is not insoluble. Marquee is good, a perfect match is better.
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.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 16, 2015
Randall Stephenson of AT&T explained, “We had 270,000 people we employed around the globe. For example, David Thodey at Australian telecom Telstra explained, “The telecommunications industry was heavily regulated around the world and we had been going through a series of negotiations with the Australian government.
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