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By: Jeff Jarvis

Jeff Jarvis — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:51:58 +0000

That is precisely their challenge and Schmidt said it: to keep changing and changing enough.

By: wonkette

wonkette — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 16:46:25 +0000

Schmidt said that (as quoted by Jarvis): He said that too much of our resource, people, government help and attention, measurement go to the legacy players, the big, old companies. Innovation, he said, happens at small start-ups but they don’t get the resource and attention.

Jeff Jarvis: I asked whether Google could be Google only because it was new. He said it was because it worked in the open internet.

Decades from now, what happens when Google is becomes one of those legacy players, when Google becomes a big, old company and no longer a small start-up?

By: geo geller

geo geller — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 04:11:40 +0000

i don’t think journalism will die but newpapers as gate keepers of information annd the future will die – but new vehicles like twitter and facebook and things not yet born will be more responsible then top down managed news which will still be somebodies views but will also be more diverse then managed news by big biz – we live in an idiotcracy where big biz is king, gov is queen and media and religion is the mistresss –

some quotes from thomas jefferson – food for thought

Freedom of the Press=

“The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” –Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.

“ We are to guard against ourselves; not against ourselves as we are, but as we may be; for who can imagine what we may become under circumstances not now imaginable” – Thomas Jefferson to Jedidiah Morse 1822

“We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.” –Thomas Jefferson to Samuel Smith, 1788

By: Jim McCarthy

Jim McCarthy — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 00:04:42 +0000

I’m definitely of the view that this is a time of frame-breaking and of the world being remade. And I don’t come at that from an apocalyptic point of view…I think this happens every couple generations. The world was certainly remade after WWII, and I think it’s happening again. Not to say that EVERYTHING will be different, but the basic parameters of the game will be. Apples will still be delicious; California will still have great weather; everyone will still care about their family and friends, but the template for life and life paths will change. Probably a lot.

I wrote about this with regard to the live entertainment business a few weeks back:

http://www.download-not-available.com/quick-takes/breaking-the-frame

and then more moodily, even more recently:

http://www.download-not-available.com/quick-takes/get-busy-living-or-get-busy-dying

And by the way, I think we’re in for about a decade of fairly unimpressive economic growth that’s absolutely necessary for this process to work.

By: Eric Tyson

Eric Tyson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:59:10 +0000

Perhaps you can ask Mr. Schmidt why his firm thought it was okay to put entire copyrighted books online?

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By: Cooler Heads

Cooler Heads — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:50:21 +0000

Umm, the idea that the industrial economy is changing is hardly new. Lots of people have been writing/thinking about it for a couple of decades. They just don’t Twitter about it because you have to discuss it in more than 140 characters.

Off-topic: I had the worst experience with Apple’s customer service yesterday. I have a three-month old Ipod that suddenly stopped working. I spent twenty minutes on hold on the company’s service line, and then went to a nearby Apple store. I was told I needed an APPOINTMENT to get service. WTF???

If I had been ready to BUY an Apple product, well then no waiting. But if I am already a customer they treat me poorly.

Jeff, I think Apple is the new Dell. Apple has no corner on virtue here. They’ve become big and uncaring.

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By: Dan McCarthy

Dan McCarthy — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:11:06 +0000

If you haven’t, you should read some of Richard Florida’s writing about the shifting economic epochs and the impact of geography on the future economy. Bottom line: in order to innovate, people need to be together, and the expansion of the housing market and the economy at large over the past decades have thrust people further apart. The answer is to reconstitute social centers of innovation, Florida say.

we are moving into a different economic cycle, inasmuch as the use of credit expansion to fund growth at a higher rate than population growth is over. We’ll need new economies to supplement our natural growth, and those aren’t likely to be industrial economies. The country needs to build exportable intellectual capital, most likely around society building areas like health care, infrastructure, water purification. And entertainment, of course!

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