A strength of WalMart was its ability to make one store (or other unit) very efficient, then create many more units, each using that same optimized process. Every store did it right cause all stores continually learned from each other. That efficiency made global ambitions doable. McD’s did that, selling billions and billions ( Read more... )

You're in a poker room ten years from now. Your name just flashed on the board, a seat is open for you. You sit down and try to buy chips from the dealer, but you can't ( Read more... )

Captain Kirk's communicator used to be an incredibly futuristic toy, almost in the same class of incredible as the 1968 Starship Enterprise's transporter. The communicators we have now are smaller than Kirk's (albeit somewhat less reliable). A newer model looks like an earplug with a small extension pointing towards the mouth. The first couple of ( Read more... )

If you took a poll asking what people think should be Mankind's Primary Goal, what would they say? End hunger and disease? World Peace? Save mother earth? All worthy aims (probably, maybe). But before all that, we could be exploring the universe with the aim of establishing human life and society extra-terrestrially. I think that goal is so ( Read more... )