The other day a friend of mine asked me if I would set up her thermostat. This seemed like a strange request until she told me that her new home came with a web-enabled Honeywell Lyric thermostat. Once I had a chance to look at the Lyric thermostat a light went off: Ahhh … the […]
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Of Digital Billionaires and Analog Beggars—Entering the Age of Disruption
We are entering a new age of robber barons who wish to disrupt our old economic and social ways. Who are these new robber barons? Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook fame; Michael and Xochi Birch of Bebo fame (which was sold to AOL for $850 million in 2008); Peter Thiel, an American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, hedge […]
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