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Dole Organic is attaching Farm Codes to their bananas, allowing customers to track their fruit back to the place it was grown and to view the farm's organic certifications.
Thomas Friedman writes that the technological forces of globalization are making the world flat. Richard Florida's research indicates that the world is actually very spiky - that the benefits of globalization are unevenly distributed globally.
Many of our long time readers will recognize the names of Brandon Stuut and Andrew Shelansky. Brandon and Andrew were the technology team, the "dynamic duo," who helped launch InsideWork. Andrew was also an occasional writing contributor to our site.
Our colleague, Bernard Moon, is an astute observer of tech trends. Here’s his latest post from Mashable on the future of micro-blogging, the Tina Fey of Web 2.0.
Bernard Moon / May 19 2008
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We can all see the massive movement toward mobile technologies. Information, communication, and connectivity are increasingly untethered and accessible 24/7 on mobile devices. In the days ahead we'll be taking more and more steps to make the resources of InsideWork easily accessed on your mobile devices.
Sam Nguyen / Apr 12 2008

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... the success of twentieth-century technology in providing Americans with convenience, comfort, speed, hygiene, and abundance was so obvious and promising that there seemed no reason to look for any other sources of fulfillment or creativity or purpose. To every Old World belief, habit, or tradition, there was and still is a technological alternative. [...] Neil Postman

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People will only change when the pain of their current situation outweighs the perceived pain of trying something new. Coburn uses this logic to explain the successes and failures of new technologies.
Sam Nguyen captures the basic ideas from George Gilder's essay on a radical shift in thinking about capital, economics, and the role of the church today.
Sam Nguyen / Jan 8 2008
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PC World Magazine just listed Windows Vista as #1 of The 15 Biggest Tech Disappointments of 2007. I gleaned a list of how to disappoint customers from Dan Tynan's review.
Sam Nguyen reports on some of his major observations from the opening keynote at Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference 2008.
Sam Nguyen / Jun 10 2008
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Video designed to stimulate the use of technology in education. A challenge to teachers and business people alike for the development of the first generation to grow up in a digital world.
Dan Wooldridge / Jan 21 2008
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The new look at InsideWork is more than cosmetic. You're looking at Day One in the third iteration of InsideWork — reengineered from the core out to deliver our third generation of content.
InsideWork / Jun 30 2008

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"Your doctor can’t be certain what's going on inside your body, but technology will. Embedding the knowledge of doctors in silicon will bring a breakout technology to healthcare, and we will soon see an end of medicine as we know it."

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Simplicity = Sanity. This is the premise of the book for an overly complicated and increasingly complex world. Ten laws to help us move toward simplicity in design, technology, business and life.
As our colleagues Sam Nguyen and Peter Ha decompress after Apple's World Wide Developers Conference in San Francisco, we note an interesting coincidence in the computing world. No doubt techies already know this, but two important things happened this week.
Don’t be fooled by the new look at InsideWork on June 30. This is more than a new paint job. What’s under the hood is a web architecture completely reengineered to deliver our third generation of content.
InsideWork / Jun 28 2008
Jim Hancock discusses the future of the music industry in light of an interview between Wired magazine and Universal Music Group CEO Doug Morris.
Jim Hancock / Dec 5 2007
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Al Lunsford is not a disinterested observer of Silicon Valley; he has long term investments and relationships there. So he quite taken by Marc Andreessen's vision of the near future of technology businesses on the Charlie Rose program.
Jeff Howe is a contributing editor at Wired Magazine, where he covers the entertainment industry, among other subjects.
Sam Nguyen / Sep 2 2006
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A New York Times article "The Boss in the Machine" -reminded me how easy it is to surrender meditation . . . reflection . . . contemplation . . . daydreaming . . . just plain thinking about things to the technology that's supposed to be working for us.
Dan Wooldridge shares insights gleaned from Pizza by Marco (Dallas, TX) on how to achieve greatness as a small business.
White papers, presentations, case studies, webcasts & blogs relevant to your job.
Sam Nguyen / Aug 2 2006
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The architecture and application of information technology changes the ecology of information.
design, technology, business, life
Sam Nguyen / Oct 2 2006
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Sam Nguyen explains how you can keep up to date with your favorite websites in less than half the time using a, easy-to-use, growing web technology called RSS.
Sam Nguyen / Dec 6 2006
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Guy Kawasaki is a managing director of Garage Technology Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm and a columnist for Forbes.com.
Sam Nguyen / May 2 2007
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The younger generation use technology more than any previous generation, they use it differently, and how they are using it is generating remarkable changes in society and business. By Dan Wooldridge.
A group of computer security experts calling themselves the Zero-Day Response Team have emerged to offer third party patches much faster than Microsoft has been willing to deliver. Will ZERT spur change at Microsoft? Here's hoping...
Jim Hancock / Sep 29 2006
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One out of four adults say the internet and cell phones have brought their families closer than their own family of origin.

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One of the unique traits that makes humans unique, different from animals, is our ability to use our skills and talents to shape material things to reflect our individuality - and when we do this, we create property. Material things in and of themselves are not property; they become property only when humans creatively find ways to use them productively. [...] Charles Colson