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In today’s Sunday paper a favorite economics columnist of mine, Tappan Monroe, commented on the growing economic power of China and India. I like him because he’s a pretty sober economist who doesn’t seem to have any particular political agenda behind his remarks. I’ll quote a bit because I suspect the article will disappear into the newspaper’s archives pretty soon. ...

Looks like the Indians and Chinese are going to have some competition in their plans to capture the future of IT…Russia and others.  From InfoWorld: In an effort to jump-start its economy and diminish its dependence on natural resources like oil, Russia has made local IT development one of its top priorities, with plans for infrastructure growth, regional "technoparks," and ...

I mentioned an article by Thomas Friedman a week ago that argued that Americans need to be aware that, in his opinion, the world is being reshaped–Globalism 3.0–by technology so much that it’s not just a small world anymore, it’s a flat world. People, economies, and labor supplies aren’t "on the other side of the world," they’re right next door. ...

Nothing could make me more proud to be an American Cancer Society employee than the following announcement (from the Link, folks): American Cancer Society Involvement in the PBS Series: "Remaking American Medicine" In support of the American Cancer Society’s nationwide priority to improve quality of life services and policies through community mobilization, collaboration, and advocacy, the Society has committed to ...