The Future of Books
August 27, 2010
Edward P. Morgan once wrote, “A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go
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In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.
Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.
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The United Nations’ “Alexandrian Library”
May 1, 2009
The renowned Library of Alexandria, Egypt, was one of the largest libraries in the ancient world. It is generally thought to have been founded at the beginning of the third century BC
Tom Barnett’s Great Powers: America and the World After Bush
February 10, 2009
Yesterday, I noted how many policymakers in Washington, DC, had finally come to agree with many of the positions that my colleague Tom Barnett put forth in his first book, The Pentagon’s
The Importance of Geography
January 13, 2009
We have all heard someone say, “The world is getting smaller.” The fact that we can witness events happening around the world in real-time or talk with someone half-way around the world
Is Google Rewiring our Brains?
November 14, 2008
The term “Google” has come to represent more than the name of the world’s most popular search engine or the company behind it. Google has become a verb as well as a
Books Forever
October 24, 2008
Librarians, by nature (or at least by reputation), are conservative people. The stereotype is Meredith Wilson’s “Marion the librarian” in his musical The Music Man. Librarians also have a very long time horizon when
Book Publishing and the Web
April 23, 2008
It seems there is an aspiring author in all of us just yearning to be set free. The World Wide Web and the emergence of Web logs (which quickly became known as
