Privacy Is One Of The Biggest Problems

Only The Paranoid Survive.

If The Brutal Facts Are Not Faced By Leaders, The Brutal Reality Sets In.

Competition Is Warfare. Mostly It Is Played By Prescribed Rules--there Is A Sort Of Geneva Convention For Competition--but It's Thorough And Often Brutal.

I Think Amazon Is The Preeminent Pioneer In Building A New Way Of Doing Commerce: Personalized, Database-driven Commerce, Where The Big Value Is Not In The Purchase Fulfillment, But In Knowing As Much About A Customer Base Of Ten Or Twenty Million People As A Corner Store Used To Know About A Customer Base Of A Few Hundred. In Today's Mass-merchandising World, That's Largely Gone; Amazon Is Trying To Use Computer Technology To Re-establish It.

Not All Problems Have A Technological Answer, But When They Do, That Is The More Lasting Solution.