The word ‘millionaire’ is said to have been coined in the early 1700s when many Frenchmen turned nouveaux riches with the ‘Mississippi bubble’. A period of economic boom saw the shares of Mississippi company rising, making many Frenchmen rich and Paris attracting investments, much to the envy of John Blunt, the Director of South Sea…
This is triggered by @manuscrypt’s interesting piece on Efficient Existence. ‘Quantified self’ was one of the jargons (that went mainstream later) in marketing in the late 2000s, ever since Nike’s running shoes became apparently intelligent. (Apparently Intelligent can also be called AI.) Since then wearables became a common term and measuring every aspect of existence…
(This was first written and published in 2008) Have you heard of Social Technographics? Social what? Or have you read the research paper ‘Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness of the Economic Performance of the Organizations: The Social Network effect’. Huh! I still haven’t understood the title itself. But then if you are in the online…