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McKinsley blames technology for our health care woes

McKinsley blames technology for our health care woesGive us old folks the little blue pillNo, not Viagra.Samuelson is obviously one of the more affluent of us as we move toward old age. Quite happy to increase costs of medical care and reduce expensive services for those on Medicare. ...

Tags: HEALTHCARE, Vertical industries, Benefits, Samuelson, health care, McKinsley, health care woe

Discussion threads 2009-01-12

McKinsey blames technology for our health care woes

Add these expenses to our prescription drug epidemic and you see American health consumers subsidizing American dominance of the healthcare technology industries. by Dana Blankenhorn

Tags: McKinsey & Co., Health Care, Imaging Technology, Samuelson, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2009-01-12

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Groups demand privacy for Google Books

A coalition of privacy and civil liberties groups are saying that Google Books could become "one-stop shopping" for law enforcement to track people's reading habits. The ACLU of Northern California, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson law clinic at UC Berkeley sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt...

Tags: Google Inc., Privacy, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-24

Biofuel's nightmare question: food or fuel?

A major mainstream economic writer has just weighed in on the food-or-fuel debate. That's the monster in the closet of the entire biofuel industry. Right now in America most biofuel comes from corn which is grown on some of the richest, most productive farm land on the planet....

Tags: Food, U.S. Congress, Corn, Biofuel, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2007-12-12

University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me.Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today.Dan Farber: Now you’ve spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley. What made you decide to go into...

Tags: Uncategorized

Blog posts 2007-06-19

University of California at Berkeley CIO - Transcript

Dan Farber: Shelton, Thanks for joining me. Shelton Waggener: Thanks for having me today. Dan Farber: Now you’ve spent your career outside of academia. You were at Lucent, Alcatel, and Sybase and in 2003 you went to the University of California, Berkeley....

Tags: University Of California At Berkeley, Network, Student, Computer Science, Institution, Technology, Computer, Campus, Berkeley, Productivity, Networking, Wireless, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2007-06-19

Is there an economics of demand-side scarcity?

There's a debate about the meaning of economic scarcity going on all over the Web, most recently set off by Chris Anderson's "Economy of Abundance" talk at Pop!Tech, that David Hornik and Ross Mayfield have commented on and Doc Searls began talking about a while back when he introduced the...

Tags: Chandler

Blog posts 2006-10-27

Newsweek Luddite decries use of cell phones

Columnist Robert Samuelson's anti-progress rant in the upcoming issue of Newsweek is focused on how cell phones have made us too connected. Therefore, he'll continue to resist cell phones, just as I've resisted ATM cards and digital cameras.Cell phones—and, indeed, all wireless devices—constitute another chapter in the ongoing breakdown between work...

Tags: Newsweek, cell phone, telephone

Blog posts 2004-08-19

Where tech giants are offshoring

Where tech giants are offshoringThey are offshoring to bring the U.S. to 3rd world levelsIt is all part of making everyone equal to 3rd world living standards. First off anyone with common sense knows that offshoring destroys the job base in this country. It is NOT about degrees, education, skills...

Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Outsourcing, OFFSHORING JOBS, job, offshoring

Discussion threads 2004-05-05