Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Alexander Weinstein’s Children of the New World weaves together a series of mind-bending vignettes into a compelling vision of how social media could change our lives. They simply would have confirmed their existing concerns.

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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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Stephenson Film Media Innovation 12

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

Randall Stephenson of AT&T explained, “We had 270,000 people we employed around the globe. The speed at which those problems happened was exponentially increased because of the ability of people to communicate through social media.” One area that proved especially challenging was mobility. Ken Powell of U.S.

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