The Economist (April 2d, 2005) has a great piece about the prevalence of mobile phones in South Korea. Three out of four people in the country carry a mobile — and that ubiquity is overturning even recently established social conventions. For example, “many young South Koreans . . . do not think e-mail is particularly […]
Robert William Fogel is a Nobel Prize-winning economist whose other claim to fame is that he’s quoted in Chapter 2 of A Whole New Mind. (“[Prosperity] has made it possible to extend the quest for self-realization from a minute fraction of the population to almost the whole of it.”) Fogel has published a new paper,
Careful readers of A Whole New Mind know that three forces are nudging us out of the Information Age and into the Conceptual Age: Abundance, Asia, and Automation. Marian Baker sends a great example of abundance: a $345 candle.
In 1999, law professor Larry Lessig wrote a fascinating book titled Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace. But law and technology have the ugly habit of changing, so the book now needs some revisions. Rather than do it entirely himself, however, the monumentally creative Lessig has established a wiki that will allow anybody to edit,
New research out of Canada and published in the March issue of the Journal of Consumer Research turns some conventional gender wisdom on its head. Most people believe that women respond more robustly than men to emotional advertising. But it turns out that guys get just as weepy as gals when they watch heartstring-tugging ads
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Doubtful. But today’s Wall Street Journal has an interesting piece headlined, “Even Tech Execs Can’t Get Kids To Be Engineers.” (Click here if you have a subscription. Or look at page B1 of the print edition.) One father says his 19-year-old son won’t follow his footsteps into an electrical engineering career. Why? “He tells me
If you’re stuck in traffic tonight, turn your radio to the left side of the dial and listen to “On Point” from WBUR in Boston. I’ll be flogging, er, discussing A Whole New Mind beginning at 8pm eastern time.
Very interesting post about “narrativism” and the importance of story on the trendspotting website, PSFK.
