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Monthly Archives: June 2012
The price of extractive institutions
John Kay writes (behind a paywall at the Financial Times, but also reprinted on his website): … The real damage imposed by men such as Mr Mubarak is not the money they might have stolen. The tragedy is that … Continue reading
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Social media before the Internet
Some interesting trivia from Knowledge@Wharton: In The Victorian Internet, author Tom Standage recounts the tale — apparently gleaned from the 1849 publication Anecdotes of the Telegraph — of a marriage ceremony conducted over the telegraph. With the bride in … Continue reading
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Smart ammunition?
The Economist‘s Clausewitz blog reports on a prototype bullet under development in the US: MILITARY snipers are competitive types. There is an ongoing and grisly contest between them to see who can kill an enemy soldier from the farthest … Continue reading
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The data of cities
A fascinating article in The Economist: …Â Carlo Ratti, who heads the Senseable City Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was one of the first to sift through the data produced by telecoms networks. One aim was to find … Continue reading
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