Don Tapscott

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1. 1947 age 0

   Born

2. 2010 age 63

   CreditTruth in Numbers? Everything, According to Wikipedia

• RBRichard Branson1 title
• SGScott Glosserman1 title
• NHNic Hill1 title
• NCNoam Chomsky1 title
• HZHoward Zinn1 title
• RKRaymond Kurzweil1 title
• VCVint Cerf1 title
• JWJimmy Wales1 title
• LLLawrence Lessig1 title
• JLJaron Lanier1 title

• A fundamental change is taking place in the nature and application of technology in business, a change with profound and far-reaching implications for companies of every size and shape. A multimillion dollar research program conducted by the DMR Group, Inc., studied more than 4,500 organizations in North America, Europe, and the Far East to investigate the nature and impact of changes in technology. The synthesis and analysis of this information indicate that information technology is going through its first paradigm shift. Driven by the demands of the competitive business environment and profound changes in the nature of computers, the information age is evolving into a second era. Computing platforms in most organizations today are not able to deliver the goods for corporate rebirth. It is only through open network computing that the open networked client/server enterprise can be achieved. In nontechnical language this book shows managers and professionals how to take immediate actio

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• Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

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• Collaboration is important not just because it's a better way to learn. The spirit of collaboration is penetrating every institution and all of our lives. So learning to collaborate is part of equipping yourself for effectiveness, problem solving, innovation and life-long learning in an ever-changing networked economy.

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• Just as the Internet drops transaction and collaboration costs in business and government, it also drops the cost of dissent, of rebellion, and even insurrection.

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• Technology doesn’t create prosperity any more than it destroys privacy.

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• Every ten minutes, like the heartbeat of the bitcoin network, all the transactions conducted are verified, cleared, and stored in a block which is linked to the preceding block, thereby creating a chain.

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