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Inventing the Movies: Hollywood’s Epic Battle Between Innovation and the Status Quo, from Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs by Scott Kirsner

13-Jul-09

As a person who enjoys movie and technologies in audio-video entertainment, I really enjoyed this historical overview by Scott Kirsner. The main thread of his storytelling is the struggles between the innovators and the “preservationists” (or “status quo”), and mostly focused on the triumphs on the innovators’ part. And I think that was the only [...]

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The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman

24-Sep-07

An interesting read on globalization although I don’t quite agree with the choice of the word “flat” with “the world” (what he wants to say, probably, is “The hierarchies in the world is getting flatter”). I did agree with most of what Mr. Friedman said. Indeed, the recent developments and changes in the technologies and [...]

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