In “The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun: an Odyssey of Innocence“, yet another magical book by Paul Gallico, a nine year old boy invents a toy gun that shoots bubbles – but no one cares about him or his invention, not even his dad. The boy then decides to run away from home, and [...]
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From Gridlock to Double Nelson
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Learning from others, NarrativesTags: Double Nelson, Ed Bott, Greyhound bus, Gridlock Economy, Hamlet, Heller’s Paradox, Innovation Gridlock, Lawrence A. Wien, Marcellus, Mary-Jo Foley, Michael Heller, Paul Gallico, The Boy Who Invented the Bubble Gun, The Microsoft strategy, Windows 7
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The dance of the witches (Afternote)
Posted: by Rudy Nadler-Nir in Anthrodigital, Narratives, TheoriesTags: Adobe, Ina Fried, Mary-Jo Foley, natural language processing, open Flash, Powerset, Silverlight technology
As an afternote to my previous posting: Reading Adobe’s press release, one can only guess why Google and Yahoo! were invited to the ‘open’ Flash party while Microsoft is not mentioned. I have a strong sense of Déjà Vu here — remember what happened to Sleeping Beauty’s parents when they didn’t invite the 3rd witch to [...]