Bill Gates on in-person vs. online education

August 6, 2010
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(I’m reporting all this week at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California. For more coverage, check out the Techonomy blog.)
At the Techonomy conference in San Francisco, Bill Gates closed the event and answered questions from the audience.
One woman asked him whether he thought that online education could potentially supersede in-person education.

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Bill Gates: Non-profits vs. for-profit businesses

August 6, 2010
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(I’m reporting all this week at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California. For more coverage, check out the Techonomy blog.)
At the Techonomy conference in San Francisco, Bill Gates closed the event and answered questions from the audience. One woman asked why non-profits can’t behave more like for-profit businesses. Gates said that wasn’t necessarily the [...]

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Sean Parker on Facebook Causes and the value of Chat Roulette

August 6, 2010
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During the final sessions of the Techonomy conference, Sean Parker of the Founders Fund, Founding President, Facebook talked about Facebook Causes and why he’s obsessed with live video and why Facebook invested in Chatroulette.

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Nicholas Negroponte on the latest success of One Laptop per Child

August 6, 2010
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(I’m reporting all this week at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California. For more coverage, check out the Techonomy blog.)
At the Techonomy conference in San Francisco, Nicholas Negroponte talked about the latest success of the One Laptop per Child. The most impressive advance is that children are teaching their parents to read. Watch.

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How do you manage the new empowered workforce?

August 5, 2010
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This week I’m reporting from the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe. No matter your company, everyone can seek out and get help from a distributed workforce. This panel provided some insight on unlearning traditional management techniques and adapting for the new workforce

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Wired’s Kevin Kelly on “What Technology Wants”

August 5, 2010
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At the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California, I chatted with Kevin Kelly, former Wired Magazine writer and currently author of the book, “What Technology Wants.” Kelly’s suggests that a wider definition of “technology” will allow us to see new opportunities for innovation.

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Some great advice and a really bad idea from Amazon’s Jeff Bezos

August 5, 2010
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Amazon’s Jeff Bezos provided some insight on how companies need to revamp how they interact with their audience and develop product. Off camera, he provided a really bad recommendation for revamping the U.S. Senate.

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Our collective intelligence is powerful and dangerous

August 4, 2010
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In the past, we haven’t been viewing history big enough to understand what makes humans unique to other species. David Christian argues that what makes us unique is our ability to collective intelligence which can bring forth innovations.

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Can we gather more ground-level data?

August 4, 2010
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(I’m reporting all this week at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, California. For more coverage, check out the Techonomy blog.)
A country’s decision making process for information and communication technologies (ICT) has gone through two very distinct stages. Prior to the collection of worldwide data by country, decisions were first made based [...]

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Viacom and Google: Looking back at more than three years of bickering

July 19, 2010
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After three years of arguing between Google and Viacom, what have we learned about the value of content, technology, and lawyers?

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