Productivity growth took off in the mid 1990s, and research (led, I’m proud to say, by my colleague and coauthor Erik Brynjolfsson ) showed conclusively that this was due mostly to information technology. This is both a really important question, and one that misses the point. And for a while there, we could. No one knows exactly why. MORE >>

So I wanted to post a bit more information about this research here, and also include a few graphs illustrating what I think is an important and interesting element of our work (if you want the most complete description available, a paper written for academic audiences is available here ). And what did we find? Do you? MORE >>

The companies there, in other words, will go from having very little information technology (as is the case now) directly to embracing Cloud computing without ever going through the intermediary steps of mainframe-, mini-, client-server-, or PC-based computing. And a lack of legacy means a greater enthusiasm for the Cloud. Do you agree? MORE >>

And because of similarly impressive advances in artificial intelligence, machine learning, crowdsourcing, and exploitation of Big Data, the same will in the near future be true of industries that deal with virtual products like knowledge, information, media, decisions, and communication. value added), BLS (for employment). MORE >>

don’t have nearly enough information and insight yet to know how big a deal it will be, or if it will will finally help Google break into social media in a big way. Like apparently all other tech geeks, I’ve been playing with Google Plus for the past week. And like a lot of us, I’m finding a lot to like. Me, neither. MORE >>