Peak Hierarchy
Regular readers will know that I have a healthy skepticism with respect to the supposed benefits of ever-increasing size in corporations and in particular with respect to financial services firms....
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Averting (financial) ecological disasters.
Paul McCulley (MD Pimco) (via The Big Picture): Information technology, more specifically the development of parallel processing, “gigabit-terabit-petabit” bandwidth and networking logic, is changing...
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Coming up for air.
Image via Wikipedia It’s like when you are 10 and you get a brand new bike for your birthday and it rains, torentially, for the next month. And all you can do is sit there and stare at it shining in...
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Now what?
(…the President) insisting that the crisis came “solely from our extravagant and vicious system of paper currency and bank credits, exciting the people to wild speculations and gambling in stocks. The...
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Investment Scarcity Banking (doesn’t work anymore.)
Image by ecstaticist via Flickr (from Mark Sigal at O’Reilly:) George Gilder once pointed out that when the availability of a given resource shifts from scarcity to surplus, a lot of wealth is...
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Moore’s Law redux
Image via Wikipedia The Economist writes: There is strong demand for technologies that do the same for less money, rather than more for the same price. The focus of the article is on computing and...
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Wisdom of (this) crowd?
Image via Wikipedia I was very kindly invited by Paul and Lee to attend my first ever eComm conference, which will be in Amsterdam from October 28th to 30th. The Emerging Communications (eComm)...
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Platforms, Markets and Bytes
This morning I gave my presentation – “platforms, markets and bytes” at eComm 09 in Amsterdam. I’m not sure if it makes sense as a standalone but if Lee posts the video, I’ll link to it here later....
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Platforms, Markets and Bytes (video)
A couple of months ago, I had the privilege to have been invited to speak at eComm 09 in Amsterdam. I have posted on this previously but recently the video of my talk was posted and perhaps will make...
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The Financial Reformation
Last week I spent the week in Amsterdam at Sibos 2010 where I had kindly been invited by Peter Van der Auwera to participate in the Innovation stream, and in particular in the Cloud Computing and Long...
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