Here Are Some Links for Your Weekend Reading

It was cool that they found the bombers so fast. Yet, I have mixed feelings about what that implies about the 'surveillance society' we live in.

Sometimes things just don't seem to make sense ... other times they do.

 

 

Here are some of the posts that caught my eye. Hope you find something interesting.

 

Lighter Links:

• Google Person Finder Located the Missing at Boston Marathon Explosion. (Mashable)
• Stupidity: Why Didn't Evolution Make Us All Geniuses? Why we still do dumb things. (NS)
• IBM CEO Predicts Three Ways Technology Will Transform the Future of Business. (Forbes)
• Disruption Results from Rational Responses to a Changing Environment. (Harvard BR)
• Stanley Kubrick Worried that IBM Would Get Mad About His Psycho Computer, HAL. (BI)

 

Trading Links:

• After Apple’s Rise, a Bruising Fall. Wall St. has turned viciously on its one-time iDarling. (NYT)
• The Death of the PC Has Not Been Exaggerated. (Forbes)
• Computer Sales in Free Fall. Quarterly Shipments Dropped 14% (Wall Street Journal)
• New Study: Smaller Hedge Fund Managers Outperform. (AllAboutAlpha)
• Condoleezza Rice:  Russia Is Really Just a Large Oil & Gas Syndicate. (AdvisorOne)