Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.
Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.
If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.
Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
The advance of technology is based on making it fit in so that you don't really even notice it, so it's part of everyday life.
Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.
People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.
This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.