This is our national identity crisis in a nutshell: Do we want government spending half its money on redistribution and military, or re-dedicating itself to science, infrastructure, and health research?
- roland legrand
"The central issue as the new millennium dawns is technocultural. There are of course other, more traditional, better-developed issues for humankind. "
- roland legrand
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It is time to acknowledge an uncomfortable truth about the public status of economics as an expert discipline: it has grown to be far more powerful as a tool of political rhetoric, blame avoidance and elite strategy than for the empirical representation of economic life.
- roland legrand
So what if corporations more and more become short-lived enterprises? What would that mean?
- roland legrand
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In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery.
- roland legrand
"Along with the rise of the connected consumer – a subject that has no shortage of consultants, writers and public speakers ready to tell your company what to do – shouldn’t we also be thinking of the rise of empowered employee, the people in the most advantageous position today and tomorrow to fill those job shortages? "
- roland legrand
Wall Street Brain Drain Reverses as Mathmatons Migrate to Tech | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0. - http://www.betabeat.com/2012...
“If you’re a smart Ph.D from MIT, you’d never go to Wall Street now,” one hedge fund executive told the magazine. “You’d go to Silicon Valley. There’s at least a propsect for a huge gain. You’d have the potential to be the next Mark Zuckerberg. It looks like he has a lot more fun.”
- roland legrand
“It seems like we’re at an inflection point in history. This is the information revolution. It’s crazy that every other field is getting revolutionised except education. I think it’s ripe for it.”
- roland legrand
