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And the eyes are always on us
Category: Blog/Analysis
... prices, the inconvenience in lost jobs. Individuals will be left explaining to their governments how one of their 753 Facebook friends happens to be an “undesireable”. The Internet has revolutionised ... Thursday, 25 February 2010 -
The race between education and technology
Category: Blog/Analysis
... it is because, for what they are capable of doing, they are too expensive to employ. Robert Allen, Professor of Economic History at Oxford, declares that the UK was the centre of the industrial revolution ... Thursday, 20 August 2009 -
Profitable Businesses Create Sustainable Jobs
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... revolution? South Africa’s problem is not that the government is not doing enough to protect existing jobs. Rather it is that economic policy has so dampened innovation in order to protect chosen industries ... Sunday, 19 July 2009 -
Mozambique's Lessons for South Africa
Category: Blog/Analysis
... everything in the country; the way all communist revolutionaries promise. All land and businesses belonged to the state. That the economy collapsed came as a surprise only to the communists. Post 1992, ... Tuesday, 09 September 2008 -
When big businesses stop submitting to autocrats
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... is in a bind. His "people's revolution" has hollowed out local manufacturing and resulted in massive net imports of most essentials (including food). Without foreign capital he cannot continue ... Thursday, 29 May 2008 -
Perlemoen and the Tragedy of the Commons
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... wiped out by enclosures. They triggered the most dramatic social change in human history: the industrial revolution. With it came the astonishing innovations that led to the motor car, airplanes and ... Monday, 31 December 2007 -
The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
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The Increment of Man "This push for a so-called "green revolution" or "gene revolution" is being done once again under the guise of solving hunger in Africa. Chemical-intensive ... Thursday, 21 June 2007 -
The efficiency of markets and how protectionism leaves the poor behind
Category: Blog/Analysis
... Europe is maintained. This sort of progression isn't limited just to farming. The supply-chain revolution In conversation with Stewart Cohen, one of the founders of the South African clothing retail ... Friday, 01 June 2007 -
When equality becomes unfair: South Africa's two economies
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... from coming here too. As with the French Revolution, sometimes the chaos spins out of control and upsets the sensibilities of the nice rich people who "never saw it coming". The rules of engagement ... Tuesday, 29 May 2007 -
Internet Bubble 2.0: the future of dotcom depends on the mobile phone
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... business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.” Web 2.0 has more to do with ... Tuesday, 24 April 2007 -
What happens when they hate you? The impact of charity.
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... unpunished. Recently I was asked, “when does altruism end and masochism begin?” Sadly, they may both be available at the same time. “He who has worked for a revolution is like ... Tuesday, 27 February 2007 -
The Cold War, Global Warming and the War on Ideas
Category: Blog/Analysis
... years, throughout the period of the Cold War, free-market economies have developed revolutionary and astonishing technologies. Not a single futurist ever came close to imagining the extent of development. ... Friday, 16 February 2007 -
Does the new Apple iPhone cause poverty?
Category: Blog/Analysis
... it's a good price I sell. I can even try to ask for a higher price if I see there are lots of buyers." It is consumerism which has resulted in the technological revolution that created cheap ... Wednesday, 10 January 2007 -
X Challenge: Develop the cheapest most effective school
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Budget airlines revolutionised travel When South African Airways was the only carrier a round-trip from Johannesburg to Cape Town used to cost over $ 1 000 for the two-hour flight. Hardly ... Friday, 05 January 2007 -
What do Richard Branson and Che Guevara have in common?
Category: Blog/Analysis
Viva la mobile revolution Richard Branson’s image has appeared all over South Africa done up as Che Guevara. Promising a mutiny in the way South Africans can purchase cell-phone airtime, Branson ... Saturday, 23 December 2006
