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These are all highly contestable statements.

she sees the primary role of government as keeping the process of development open-ended by preventing violence, fraud, monopolies, and monocultures, and by stimulating—but not prescribing—various forms of knowledge and practice.

The third scenario is that the Western tech industry itself realizes that its interests lie in imagining a new Great Safety Net for the new age of ubiquitous computing and networks—and that it shouldn't wait for feeble Western governments to take the lead. The critical (if transient) role the corporate world played in securing the legacy of the Sec

At the end of the quarter, a lone HR person ran around like a Jack Russell, nipping at managers’ heels to get updated numbers before the board meeting.

I teach at business schools, attend startup community events, and host small gatherings of young entrepreneurs. By serving as a mentor at accelerators such as Columbia's Greenhouse, Yale's Entrepreneurial Institute, DreamIT Ventures, and Founders Institute, and as a speaker/participant at events organized by groups such as Sandbox Network, StartupG

every aspect of a practice group’s affairs, from practice development to hiring, from economic structure to governance, will be affected by its relative positioning on this spectrum.

Eugene Kleiner, moreover, a founding partner at the premier venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins, was originally hired by Bill Shockley at his ill-fated semiconductor company. But the Silicon Valley process that Kleiner helped develop was a different innovation model from Bell Labs. It was not a factory of ideas; it was a geography of ideas. It was