Word: millenniums
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Xbox headquarters is a surprisingly unimpressive place, a generic office park in Redmond, Wash., across the road from a large gravel pit. Microsoft's inspiring name for this low-rent nerd farm is the Millennium campus, and it's where the company's money-losing projects live. Not for them the manicured lawns and sculpted berms and softball fields and fancy cafeterias of Microsoft's main campus. They get the gravel...
...isolation of the Millennium campus has worked in the Xbox team's favor. The Xbox project is run by five guys, all Microsoft vice presidents, and one thing they realized early on is that while Microsoft was the right place to get the next Xbox built financially, it was totally wrong for it culturally. Microsoft moves slowly and doesn't make sharp turns. It also doesn't play especially well with partners--like the people who write games and make consumer electronics--has little experience building hardware and has never shown much aptitude for nurturing fun, cool brands. So they...
...Office Space), due out in August. It stars Luke Wilson as a present-day dim bulb who is put to sleep for 1,000 years and wakes up to discover he is the brightest man in an incredibly--but plausibly--dumbed-down future. Could it be that, over a millennium, people saw too many remakes, too many sequels and prequels that weren't ever equals? The only unfunny thing about Judge's premise is that it might become true...
...adequately recognized by developed economies. It may not literally kill, but it is responsible for a significant amount of growth stagnation and suffering for poor nations. It is time that this topic moved from boardrooms into actual research and that existing research was converted into policy. Without this, the millennium development goals shall remain a pipe dream, yet another promise made to the next generation that is broken...
...committee was charged with the Herculean task of redefining what it means to be educated in a new millennium. After extensive work, its report was lackluster at best. It identified a general education philosophy composed of four rather ambiguous pillars: knowledge, self-development, citizenship, and achievement. To that end, it proposed requiring three courses in three general areas: the Sciences and Technology, the Humanities and the Arts, and the Study of Societies. A student would have to take a “Harvard College Course” (HCC)—some sort of interdisciplinary survey course?...