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for August, 2000
8/1/00
"There
are at least two kinds of games. One could be called finite, the other
infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning,
an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play."
from Finite
and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
James P. Carse, 1986
8/2/00
"The age of the bit infinity is now beginning, in which users
will increasingly demand some way to help sift through the bits [of
information] that deluge them. E-mails, voice mails, IMs [instant messages]
are just the beginning. . . . As bits increase in users´ lives,
users need to take more personal responsibility for their bits. . .
.The awareness of and responsibility for one´s own bits is what
I call bit literacy."
Mark
Hurst, President, Creative Good
goodexperience.com,
July 18, 2000
8/3/00
"The world was terrible before people came along and changed
it. So we do not have much to lose by technology."
Marvin Minsky, 1997
quoted by Richard
Rhodes in
Visions
of Technology, 1999.
8/4/00
"Although
thousands of women have flooded into professions that
were once dominated by men, those women still make up only 13%
of law partners, 26% of tenured professors, and 12% of corporate officers."
from Flux:
Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love, and Life in a Half-Changed World
Peggy Orenstein, 2000
quoted in Fast Company, August 2000
8/7/00
"A
person who sees rewarding purpose and a genuine opportunity beyond the
task can bring creativity, productivity, quality, and value to any job.
The job of the leader, then, is to articulate a mission that brings
deeper meaning to work, and to assure that the organization´s
mission is in alignment with people´s own growth and development."
from "Mission as an Organizing Principle"
C. William Pollard, in "Ideas in the News,"
the e-letter of MeansBusiness,Inc.,
July, 2000
8/8/00
"There´s
a certain smug satisfaction in believing that everyone is clueless
but me and thee. It´s easy to criticize your parents until you
have kids. It´s equally convenient to bash bosses until you get
promoted."
from Escape
from Cluelessness
Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal, 2000
8/9/00
"The
model that business futurists like to hold up is the movie industry
.... In Hollywood, nearly everything is contracted out -- the casting,
the costumes, the craft services -- and when the movie is done, everybody
disperses to go work on whatever they´ve got lined up next. Many
different kinds of goods and services may end up being produced in the
same manner."
from "The Company Where Everybody´s Got a Temp,"
David Pescovitz, The New York Times Magazine "Tech2010" issue,
June 11,2000
8/10/00
"Robert
Kraut of Bell Communications Research studied patterns of communication
and collaboration among globe-trotting scientists. When it came
to actual research, they almost never worked with anybody who wasn´t
on the same floor in the same building. Good research, he hypothesized,
came from shared confusion -- bumping into somebody and rambling on
about whatever is on your mind at the time .... Even in a global cybereconomy,
places such as Silicon Valley -- not to mention New York and London
-- will remain preeminent."
Wired Encyclopedia of the New Economy, 1998.
8/11/00
"Many biologists are concluding that the biological construction
kit for humankind has far fewer genes than previously believed ....
If the lowest guesses in the human gene sweepstakes are correct, it
means that it takes only twice as many genes to make a person, with
an average of 100 trillion cells in the human body, as to make a worm
or a fruitfly."
from "$1 Gets You Into This Gene Pool"
Robert Lee Hotz, Los Angeles Times,7/25/2000
August
14, 2000
"Carnivore [the FBI´s "e-mail-reading tool"] demonstrates that
many Americans´ assumptions about e-mail were false. Without the
protection of message encryption tools, e-mail is more like notes on
postcards than letters in sealed envelopes. Carnivore proves that e-mail
is in fact less secure than telephone conversations."
"Curbing
the Carnivore"
eWeek
August 7, 2000
August 16, 2000
Count Me In for
Women’s Economic Independence is a new non-profit organization that
raises money from women to be loaned to women. To supplement
corporate and foundation funding, women across America are being asked
to contribute a minimum of $5 to create a fund to issue small ($500
to $10,000) business loans and scholarships to qualifying women.
To learn more or to contribute to this innovative effort, visit Count
Me In
August 17, 2000
"Work has become
how we define ourselves," worries Benjamin Hunnicutt, an art historian
and professor who specializes in the history of work. "It is now answering
the traditional religious questions: Who am I? How do I find meaning
and purpose? Work is no longer just about economics, it´s about
identity."
quoted in "Betrayed by Work,"
by Pamela Kruger
Fast
Company
November, 1999
August 21, 2000
"A
lot of organizations spend between 1 and 5 percent of their budgets
to tell the world what they do, and the Internet is a wonderful way
to do that. If you think of the cost of printing reports and papers
and distributing them, it is so much cheaper just to put the information
up on the Internet for people to gather."
William Y. Arms, Professor of Computer Science, Cornell University
quoted in "´Open Access´is the wave of the Information Future,
Scholar Says"
Chronicle of Higher Education, August 18, 2000
August 22, 2000
"Some 86 percent
of Internet users favor ´opt-in´ privacy policies, which
would require a Web site to ask permission before collecting data about
them when they visit the site, according to a study released Monday
by the Pew Internet and American Life Project .... 56 percent of the
same Web users [did not know] what an Internet ´cookie´
is .... "
Katherine Mieszkowski,
"Leggo
My Data! Web surfers want privacy on-line, but a new study shows
they can´t tell a cookie from a Cocoa Puff."
Salon.com, August 21, 2000
August 23, 2000
"The coming technological
revolution means that forecasts are more valuable than experience. The
most valuable forecasts are visions describing what we want our technology
to do for us."
Jonathan Peck
Institute for Alternative Futures
at the eHealth Colloquium, Harvard University,
August 21, 2000
August 24, 2000
"That it will ever
come into general use, notwithstanding its value, is extremely doubtful
because its beneficial application requires a good bit of trouble ...
because its hue and character are foreign and opposed to all our habits
and associations."
The London Times,
1834
from an article about the stethoscope
Quoted by Dr. Blackford
Middleton,MedicaLogic Inc.
at the eHealth Colloquium, Harvard University
August 22, 2000
August 25, 2000
"A recent study
by Jupiter Communications projects that whereas 93 percent of households
with incomes over $75,000 will be online in 2005, less than half of
those with incomes less than $15,000 will be. These low-income households
represent 19% of the U.S. population."
Leora Harling and
Claire Keaveney
"Crossing the
Digital Divide"
NewMedia.com, 8/10/99
August 28,2000
In the perfect organization,
there´d be no need to communicate. "You don´t strive for
more communication. You strive for less and then recognize your limitations
and communicate around them. You can tell where organizational structure
is broken by looking at where the most communication is happening."
Jeff Bezos
CEO, Amazon.com
quoted in Wired
Magazine
July, 2000
August 29, 2000
"We talk about the
quality of product and service. What about the quality of our relationships
and the quality of our communications and the quality of our promises
to each other?"
Max de Pree
quoted in Fast
Company, August 2000
August 30, 2000
"Many creative or
´right-brained´ people who have always worked in chaos both
crave and are frightened of getting organized. On one hand, you crave
it because you feel the disorganization has kept you from achieving
your full potential. On the other hand, you are afraid a more structured
system might squelch your creativity, as you´ve usually produced
high-quality work in spite of the chaos."
Julie Morgenstern
Organizing
from the Inside Out, 1998
August 31, 2000
"When you write
about technology, what you´re really doing is writing about people
and companies, about their social roles, the networks they´re
part of, the culture they inherit and how they change it, their ideas
and experiences, and the difference they try to make. Money also plays
a big role, of course, but it´s only a tool, like technology itself."
Bruno Giussani
"A Look Just Over the Horizon"
Newyorktimes.com
August 8, 2000
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