February 2008

Grand challenges for engineering in the next 100 years

On Feb 15 the voting for the ‘Grand Challenges For Engineering in the next 100 years‘ is going to start. This is the contribution I wrote for the discussion there: Atomic scale assembly, and programmable matter… A better understanding of quantum mechanics, and the software capable of exploiting it will give us unparalleled power over

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Strategic Marketing Evolves – lecture at the California School of International Management

Here is the slidecast of my lecture from yesterday at the California School of International Management | View | Upload your own David Orban “Strategic Marketing Evolves – The changing role of brands in the network age” Disintermediation is immediacy. After a hiatus of ten thousand years, during which more and more sophisticated tools were

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Endorsing Barack Obama

The changes necessary to keep our societies aligned with the needs of a desirable future can only be accomplished by those who belong to that future. Barack Obama is a choice for a desirable future. It also helps that, according to the Washington Post’s political compass survey, my views are strongly aligned with his. The

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Dealipedia to add transparency to corporate deal flow

Dealipedia is launching today, aiming to apply wikinomics to the collection and mashing up of information about corporate deals, including financing, IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, and even bankruptcies. So many times there are announcements of interesting deals that are shrouded behind a ‘details were kept private’ veil. What Dealipedia is betting on, is that there

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