DescriptionAre the government's demands to Microsoft unreasonable? Attorney Charles Rule of the law firm Covington and Burling, the lead firm representing Microsoft - the giant software company that faces antitrust lawsuits from the Justice Department - provides some invaluable insights. Rule served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division from 1986-89. He spoke to The City Club on May 29, 1998.
DescriptionThe electronic age has dramatically altered the terms of trade for intellectual goods. How valuable is the product you are developing - and how do you plan to generate revenue from it in the future? Paul Goldstein, Professor of Law at Stanford University, provides a comprehensible framework for current intellectual property law and the prospects for its modification in the United States and the world. He also discusses the cause and effect of intellectual property losses as well as the influence of law on product value.
DescriptionThis article from Harvard Business Review traces the shift in the economics of information. Over the past decade, managers had to adapt their operating processes to new information technologies - but now, they must rethink the strategic fundamentals of their business, say authors Philip B. Evans and Thomas S. Wurster of the Boston Consulting Group. Starting with the example of the near-demise of Encyclopædia Brittanica, they explain why every business, not just information businesses, must pay attention to, and respond to, shifts in the economics of information. This article originally appeared in print in the September-October 1997 Harvard Business Review and is now available in audio format exclusively through Audible.
DescriptionDigital Future is a series of eight lectures hosted at the Library of Congress' John W. Kluge Center. 1. David Weinberger, former senior Internet adviser to the Howard Dean presidential campaign, discusses how weblogs work and their value in gath…
DescriptionNeil Postman offers historical and social arguments to support his theory that the U.S. is in danger of becoming a "technopoly, " a system in which technology rules over social institutions and national life, and becomes self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. Postman traces the historical movement of technology from being a support system for a culture's traditions to competing with them, and finally, to creating a totalitarian order with no use for tradition at all. He'll examine how technology comes to redefine our perceptions of everything from religion to politics to truth - and how alternative way of living become invisible and irrelevant. While tools and technologies are indispensable to any culture, he argues, we must understand and control them and place them in the context of our larger human goals, our social values, and our national intentions.
DescriptionCreated specifically for executives and managers, Going Wireless shows how mobile technology is impacting every industry, including yours. Award-winning journalist Jaclyn Easton delivers the unexpected. In addition to in-depth discussions about m…
DescriptionThe founders of the fastest-growing advertising agency in America explain how to ignite the kind of marketing explosions that will capture customers' attention. We all want to have our message heard. In Bang! Linda Kaplan Thaler and Robin Koval t…
DescriptionNearly a century ago, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and The Spirit of Capitalism articulated the animating spirit of the industrial age. Now, Pekka Himanen - together with Linus Torvalds and Manuel Castells - articulates how hackers* repr…
