Category Archives: Technology

Nonlinear Thinking: The New Industrial Revolution – 3D Printing

We’ve posted several pieces on 3D printing and have investments in some of the stocks. This technology is going to be super disruptive.  It will change global trade flows, displace workers, not to mention the several other unknown unkowns.    … Continue reading

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World’s Ugliest Chart: NASDAQ

Led by the ugly correction in Apple and Google’s 10 percent swan dive after its earnings release, the Nasdaq has broken its uptrend and key support at around 3040, which has held since mid-August.   The index managed to close on … Continue reading

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How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything

The Mobile Wave: How Mobile Intelligence Will Change Everything Michael Saylor, Chairman & CEO of MicroStrategy,  Inc The Mobile Wave deals with one of our favorite trends we’ve been hammering on for the past few years.   Here is USA … Continue reading

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Mr. October’s Interesting Charts

France’s CAC took a big hit last week (-4.98 percent) breaking key support and its 50-day moving average. The Brazilian Bovespa gave back 3.5 percent and looks to test its short-term uptrend, which also coincides with the 50-day moving average. … Continue reading

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Are the Droids Taking Our Jobs? MUST VIEW!

We really hope Fed Chairman Bernanke sees this Ted Talk by Andrew McAfee, a management research scientist at MIT’s Sloan School of Management.    QE∞ will not rollback the technological  forces that are shaping the global labor market and risks … Continue reading

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Nonlinear Thinking: A New Kind of Industrial Robot

A smarter, safer new industrial robot [Rethink Robotics] could bring automation to new areas of manual work and help many U.S. manufacturers regain a competitive edge. – Technology Review (click here if video is not observable)

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TedTalks: What is the Internet, really?

When a squirrel chewed through a cable and knocked him offline, journalist Andrew Blum started wondering what the Internet was really made of. So he set out to go see it — the underwater cables, secret switches and other physical … Continue reading

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Nonlinear Thinking: Perspective 2.0

Given today’s launch of the iPhone5 we thought you’d enjoy this Western Electric ad of “the phone system of tomorrow” from the October 1977 Technology Review.  Perspective! Twenty-five years later we have the iPhone5, which can pay your bills,  find … Continue reading

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Nonlinear Thinking: 3D-Printed Baseball Bat

We’ve posted several pieces about how 3D printing is going to revolutionize manufacturing and impact international trade flows (click here, here, and here) .   Imagine your local WalMart with several of these printers on site producing much of their own … Continue reading

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Nonlinear Thinking: Earthworm Robots

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein. The boys and girls at MIT, Harvard, and Seoul National University  are keeping busy.  This is truly amazing.   Here’s to imagination getting you from … Continue reading

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