Matlock Report
Where MARKETS ↔ TECHNOLOGY ↔ GOVERNMENTS Interconnect
“The Western democracies, for example, are out after money and the Eastern Communists are out after power; otherwise they share an identical view of life, and [such] ideologies which accompany identical acts can only be described as a cruel hoax.” – John Wilkinson, 1964 It seems to me that if Americans are honest with themselves …
“If we can agree that the recession wasn’t about bubbles but about the organization of knowledge, we can move on to restoring the systems that allowed the global economy to expand more in the last 60 years than in the previous 2,000.” – Hernando de Soto Recall the metaphor of the man who lost his …
Anniversary Congrats! Invention or Innovation? Need to be original for success? Ask “Tweety”, “Beeper”, and “Twitter” Photo quote from 2010 article Can Twitter Make Money? “TITANS OF TWEET Twitter founders…hoist cold ones…its real fortunes depend on proving that tweets have value.” “We don’t think we are there yet,” says Twitter cofounder Evan Williams Think you’re …
“Director Mueller and future FBI directors, if the trend of politicization continues, must demonstrate courage and independence in conducting politically sensitive investigations. . . It is left up to the Department of Justice and its principal investigative agency, the FBI, to ensure that such investigations will occur. . . The very future of the criminal …
“The most important Manhattan Projects of the future will be vast government-sponsored enquiries into what the politicians and the participating scientists will call “the problem of happiness” . . .” – Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, 1932, 1946 The “criminal investigation into Facebook’s data deals with major electronics manufacturers” launched by federal prosecutors as reported …
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 …