Word: savvyness
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Passion may be the most overused word in Silicon Valley, but here it's unlikely to refer to romance. While the second-wave emigres may be socially savvy, the enthusiasm they bring to bear on their businesses is narrowly focused. Distractions, including relationships, are largely unwelcome.
While the hiring this summer of Carly Fiorina as the first female CEO of Hewlett-Packard was considered a seismic event among the Valley's pocket-protector set, members of the dot.com generation barely shrugged. For many of them, the boss already is a woman. The boom in e-commerce...
Nor will it take a big shift to affect television's business model. Ads are sold based on demographics. Suppose only relatively well-off, younger, tech-savvy viewers--the kind advertisers crave--adapt to PVRs. Bernoff posits that if X-Files fans bypass all those pricey tech ads, such highly...
Purdy's mind, however, is another matter. With the publication of his first book--For Common Things: Irony, Trust and Commitment in America Today (Knopf; 256 pages; $20)--the brainy nature boy has stormed the capital, panicking the languid sophisticates with an unfashionably passionate attack on the dangers of modern...
With more computers than ever ready to be booted up in classrooms across the country, our schools should be turning out thousands of Bill Gates clones. Not so fast. It seems half the screens are dark because the geeks who backed this rush to get computers in schools forgot one...