Matlock Report
Where MARKETS ↔ TECHNOLOGY ↔ GOVERNMENTS Interconnect
User needs to “think as a producer when acting as a consumer” Ahh, the Amazing Amazon Rainforest of South America. It’s breathtaking! Whether you’ve visited, seen pictures or films you cannot escape its beauty. Alongside this exterior beauty one can see its resources. Jeff Bezos appears to have been able to “see the forest from …
Fast and “sexy” cars are appealing. Adding a celebrity, model or actor alongside the car may add to this appeal. As I noted in my paper, State of the Union: The President, “The Big Four,” and The Fox and the Lion,“You don’t sell a product; you sell the image of a product.” Of course, when …
“Indeed, unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means… under the need for efficiency and stability, into the welfare-tyranny of Utopia. You pays your money and you takes your choice.” – from Brave New World, Aldous Huxley,1932, 1946. Is …
“A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from traps, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves. One must therefore be a fox to recognize traps and a lion to frighten wolves.” – Machiavelli. 1532. …
“The technological society requires men to be content with what they are required to like; for those who are not content, it provides distraction-escape into absorption with technically dominated media of popular culture and communication… “ – Robert K. Merton, 1964 February is the month of candy, flowers, and sweet nothings in the U.S. And …