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That’s not exactly something one hears every day in the Sackler Museum. But last Friday evening, however, it was the subject of an academic analysis by Jared M. Diamond ’58, the 1998 Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs and Steel...
According to Diamond, Eurasians were eventually able to dominate because of their earlier adoption of agriculture and consequently their development of complex societies around farming cultures. These societies had the dual advantages of technological superiority and disease resistance, a theory reflected in the title Guns, Germs, and Steel...
...point is that his theories in Guns, Germs, and Steel can also be applied to the modern economy. According to Diamond, the organization of a company or industry, just like the institutions of a society, is the most significant reason for its success or lack thereof. He even says that Bill Gates supports this theory—that it was actually Gates who first applied the logic of Diamond’s theory to the contemporary business world...
Picon cited the beams of light that illuminated ground zero for a month after the incident and asked, “Why think only in terms of concrete and steel...
...lying if I said that I was anything but completely ecstatic to be inside the global headquarters of corporate-approved hipness. The studios were decorated in stainless steel faux-warehouse chic. The walls were even sprayed with graffiti. MTV hopefuls, the requisite mish-mash of minorities and uber-prepsters sat on a plush couch. I joined my fellow VJ wannabes and sat silently pondering the room’s aesthetic of exposed plumbing...