I wrote a week ago about buying Belgian chocolate, and talking to the chocolatier and finding out about what goes into the average chocolate bar. We all know about the Chinese milk scandals involving replacing milk solids with melamine. If you go to your local supermarket and buy garlic, you will probably find that it [...]
Isn’t interesting that industries that use outdated business models tend to die. In the 1800’s Candle and Tallow makers were fearful of their futures and even in two hundred years ago, there were people that paid out on the protectionist industry. The following is copied in toto from http://www.panarchy.org/bastiat/petition.eng.1845.html Read it, cogitate [...]
We’re on the verge of an infrastructural shift as profound as any in human history, on the scale of the Industrial Revolution. You might say we’re going to be seeing the other side of that revolution, and it will change our political system, our ideologies, and our beliefs. Richard Heinberg. July 2006 On the [...]
Remember when perfume strips n magazines was revolutionary. Researchers at German electronics giant Siemens AG have developed ultra-thin miniature color displays that can be printed onto paper or foil. Siemens say these displays can be used on packaging. The advent of low-cost disposable technologies provides opportunities for applications that include electronic smart packaging, such as the changing [...]
The fourth and most important profound phase of blogging is just getting underway. Not to be missed its the commercial and business process blogging. Blogging's three phases, says The Blog Herald are the geek, the extrovert, and the 3G. 3G, todays they announce is the broad-base consumer blogging phase. As a result, they think geek bloggers are in decline. But that's [...]