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Watching the future unfold at pedestrian pace in Silicon Valley
Danny O'Brien
2012-09-13
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0913/1224323956950.html
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The trick is to spot the advances that have a chance of spreading to the rest of the world.
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In this column, I’ve written about companies and technologies that triumphed, such as BitTorrent and Firefox, Wikipedia and Flickr, Facebook and the iPhone; and some that stumbled, such as the One Laptop per Child initiative and the social network Diaspora. There are some technologies whose success is still unclear, with names such as Bitcoin and mesh networks.
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Danny O'Brien
2012-09-13
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0913/1224323956950.html
...
The trick is to spot the advances that have a chance of spreading to the rest of the world.
...
In this column, I’ve written about companies and technologies that triumphed, such as BitTorrent and Firefox, Wikipedia and Flickr, Facebook and the iPhone; and some that stumbled, such as the One Laptop per Child initiative and the social network Diaspora. There are some technologies whose success is still unclear, with names such as Bitcoin and mesh networks.
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