InfoWorld: IT in permanent decline, execs worry: September 19, 2003: By : Platforms Things are getting pessimistic! An Intel exec stated at an IT conference that the IT industry in the US may be heading into a state of permanent decline. Maybe that’s why Intel has just invested more money in a chip center in Western China. Here’s some attention-getting ...

Bill and Melinda Gates continued contributing large amounts–$168 M this time–to diseases afflicting thrid-world countries. Malaria this time.

Last weekend I attended the “Accelerating Change Conference” at Stanford, put on by the Accelerating Change Institute (ACI), a 501(c)3 with the sole purpose of facilitating—you guessed it—accelerating change. Accelerating change doesn’t just mean that things are changing faster, it means the rate of change itself is accelerating. The change rate is becoming exponential, and, according to some, we are ...

Here in the CA Division Office we’ve just hosted lunch for about 20 “scholars” from the Asian ACSU. They came from Taiwan, mainland China, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Bangladesh and the Philippines. They’ve been here this past week learning how to develop in their homelands the kind of volunteer organizations that the Society represents. Futuring and Innovation Center member and FI ...