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
APRIL 27, 2012
It's an age of unprecedented, staggering technological change. 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. But he's not alone in the judgment that we're not actually living in an era of great innovation.
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Harvard Business Review
JULY 14, 2017
Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns. Science fiction can help.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 4, 2012
I wrote a post here at hbr.org on whether the Internet era has been a time of world-changing innovation or a relative disappointment. It was inspired by comments from author Neal Stephenson, who espoused the latter view in a Q&A at MIT. This was brought home by an experiment I inadvertently unleashed last week. And why not?
Harvard Business Review
JULY 11, 2014
The champions I’ve known have been motivated by a host of related factors – generating personal visibility, drawing attention and resources to their domain, or being perceived as innovators. Cool new technology, new market for AT&T, competitive pressure, etc. The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson.
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