Chris Banescu | September 19, 2011
by Eric Markowitz – One of the world’s oldest publishing companies brought in a ringer to revolutionize the way the company does business. The result? The first fully-interactive textbook. Nature Publishing Group, which publishes several highly regarded scientific journals and textbooks, was founded in England in 1869, eight years before electric lights illuminated the streets [...]
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Chris Banescu | April 11, 2011
by Rich Karlgaard – Last week I interviewed the Texas energy baron T. Boone Pickens four consecutive nights in front of a live audience. Pickens would talk for 40 minutes and then I would interview him for 50 minutes. (Full disclosure: I was paid a fee to do this, not from Pickens but from the [...]
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Chris Banescu | July 6, 2009
The Wall Street Journal | by L. Gordon Crovitz | July 6, 2009 Just in time for summer, Crown Imports has brought back a popular television advertisement for its Corona beer that first aired in 1998. The new one shows a man at the beach skipping rocks into the sea. He decides to do the [...]
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Technology, Work-Life | Print
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Chris Banescu | November 1, 2004
No sooner had SpaceShipOne safely landed in the Mojave Desert, making history as the first privately-funded manned space vehicle, than government officials rekindled their desire to regulate this nascent private industry. Such concern for the safety of future space travelers is commendable but somewhat disingenuous, given Congress’ rather poor record of oversight in maintaining the [...]
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Entrepreneurship, Ethical Self-Interest, Government Incompetence, Innovation, Technology | Print
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