But, labor productivity has been steadily rising, and is now nearly double what it was in 1965.  Where have the benefits of these productivity gains gone?  The key challenge was to manage the growing means of production in the most efficient way possible.  Now they have turned their attention from analysis to prescription.  MORE >>

The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics » The Collapse of Complex Business Models. In 1988, Joseph Tainter wrote a chilling book called The Collapse of Complex Societies. At this point, any additional complexity is pure cost. Why didn’t these societies just re-tool in less complex ways? Clay Shirky. MORE >>

In the quest for the fastest machines, supercomputers have always been at the leading edge of advances in IT, identifying the key barriers to overcome and experimenting with technologies and architectures that generally then appear in more commercial products a few years later. They got us into the terascale and petascale ranges.  MORE >>

So, like many others, I have discussed services and their attributes in contrast to what they are not - physical products that are generally manufactured in factories.  As these examples illustrate, the historical distinction between product and services is now blurring.  It has been a tough subject to teach.  Kushida. MORE >>

MOOC on complexity JAY CROSS | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2013. PLE: connectivist or constructivist GEORGE SIEMENS | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2010. Four Reasons you need structure for informal learning DAWN OF LEARNING | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2010. MOOC on complexity. GEORGE SIEMENS | THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2010. PLENK 2010. MORE >>