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Three years ago, Appleton Paper Co. decided to make money. An excellent pursuit for a company, you would think. But as with all businesses, not so easy as it sounds. The money in question is U.S. currency, more specifically the very high-tech paper used to print it. The Appleton, Wis., papermaker planned an expensive makeover to compete for the $400 million contract to supply the government with currency paper when the contract went up for bid this spring. Appleton, an employee-owned company, figured to spend more than $70 million upgrading one of its three paper mills, enabling...
Inveneo was launched in 2004 by three Silicon Valley veterans--Mark Summer, 36; Kristin Peterson, 45; and Bob Marsh, 59--who share a passion for high tech and an interest in the developing world. They had done enough volunteer work overseas to see how wireless communications might improve and save lives--through phone calls to health clinics, fast reporting of natural disasters, support for trading co-ops and better educational opportunities...
...Turkey and Argentina; Brazil teetered on the brink. Meanwhile, Silicon Valley, the pride of the U.S. economy, was crashing, while entire sectors of the so-called new economy disintegrated. And Japan, the world's second largest economy, was locked in a financial crisis redolent of the 1930s. After the tech wreck, everything from state-of-the-art fiber-optic networks to computer chips were dumped on the market, as desperate investors struggled to raise cash at almost any price. The main reason that it has become so easy for the advanced economies to source back-office support in Asia...
...will topple, repair teams could take days (or, more likely, weeks) to show up and the National Guard will come packing guns but no walkie-talkies. "In the end, you can only count on yourself," says deputy mayor Greg Meffert, the city's chief technology officer and a onetime tech entrepreneur. Like every other city employee, from the mayor on down, Meffert is worried that the "rookie levee system"--untested since repairs began--could fail again...
...looking at the characters is that they don't have personalities. They're just a collection of various pathologies. Maybe having personalities is a sentimental way of looking at people. With the people I know in tech - and God knows I know enough of them - there is this micro-autistic thing that happens in that world. Obviously I hyperbolize it, but I think there's something to it. I'm not saying it's all of human personality, but I think it's certainly part of human personality...