The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Cause Change
Renowned playwright George Bernard Shaw once said “The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” By this definition, some of today’s entrepreneurs are decidedly unreasonable–and have even been dubbed crazy. Yet as John Elkington and [...]
Microsoft Surface Computing!
One of Microsoft Corp.’s biggest secrets looks like a normal coffee table. Until it’s switched on. Microsoft unveiled a new tabletop computing interface it is dubbing “surface computing.” In the works for five years in Microsoft Research as a project called Milan, the idea is to transform a surface as big as tabletop into a [...]
Look! Up in the sky! It’s Virtual Earth!
Microsoft’s Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, moving up, down and through its hyperreal cityscapes with dazzlingly fluidity, a remarkable feat that requires staggering amounts of data to bring into focus. Google might still be ahead of the game, but even in beta, Virtual Earth shows incredible promise. Microsoft’s visions for the [...]
