First of two parts. Ain’t it grand? Stocks have surged up almost 30% in the full year since Donald Trump stunned even himself by winning the presidential election. GDP growth, mired below 2% growth for ten years, suddenly is at 3%-plus for two quarters in a row—and the New York Fed now forecasts growth of […]
Fired in Your 50s
Hi guys, with help from a talented filmmaker friend, I have broken down my recent speech at Carnegie Hall into bite-sized soundbites for faster skimming… in case you find any worthy nuggets of wisdom or humor herein. Thanks! Part 1: Caught up in a Daunting Demographic Dilemma Part 2: So you got laid off . […]
Dennis at Carnegie Hall
To download video, right-click here: Dennis Kneale and select “Save Link As.” Hello all, had the pleasure of making a speech recently to more than 300 Allianz employees at an auditorium in Carnegie Hall. The topic had to address a demographic trend, and mine hits close to home: “Fired in Your Fifties, and What You Can […]
Up Now: My Own App!
Wanna see something kinda cool? First, pick up your Apple iPhone. Now go to the Apple app store. Tap on the magnifying-glass search-line thingie, and enter my name: Dennis Kneale And bingo! I got my own app up in the Apple app store! Now download it, please, whatdya say? It is a “native-mode” app of […]
The Interviewer, Interviewed
http://bit.ly/1EM92Vf Hey guys, did an interview at Milken Global Conference last week with Business RockStars. Click here to check it out. http://bit.ly/1EM92Vf
The Bigger Snoop
http://bit.ly/1JeHfxL Who’s the bigger snoop–government or Google? On my panel at the Milken Global Forum, ACLU’s President, an Intel privacy veep, an anti-hacker and a computer scientist debate that question and hold forth on what may already be a moribund idea: the notion that anything we do or say can remain private in a digital […]
Taming the Big Data Wave
For decades data storage has been a control freak’s dream: Data are “structured” and consistent, dutifully tucked away in disk-based systems that are prodigious in capacity but cantankerous and inflexible, unable to expand or shrink as data flows dictate. Now comes a data deluge that will make control freaks… freak. A new wave of “unstructured” […]
Suddenly, Back-Office is Sexy
In the annals of innovation, inspiration can emerge from frustration. For David Barrett, it came a few years ago after the “scarring experience” of a clash with vexing, outdated back-office software. He had just joined Akami after it acquired a startup he had formed with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, and Barrett had to use an […]
Next Big Thing: “Things”
Nicholas Negroponte became famous as a futurist with his book “Being Digital,” published in 1995. A few years later, a cub reporter at The Wall Street Journal asked him what would be next for the Net. “Things,” Negroponte answered. “Things that think want to link.” Soon, he foretold, the Internet would link everything from household […]
How Innovation Outgrew Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley doesn’t really matter anymore. A high-tech CEO posed that provocation to me recently, though he had founded his company in Europe and had just relocated it to the valley that made innovation famous. It was a move made mainly for appearances, the CEO maintained, for these days innovation happens everywhere, far beyond the […]
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