Archive for March, 2009

Minority Report is here

Posted by Sai Panyam in Information on March 19, 2009

All of us remember Tom Cruise from Minority Report. He got to play with a cool ‘computer interface’. He could manipulate images and data through the flick of his hand. Well that technology is not in some futuristic world or time. It is here!! Why is this relevant? It is relevant because we are being [...]

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Reflections on a crisis

Posted by Sai Panyam in Finance, Psychology on March 10, 2009

As a  follow up to the humorous skit on the current economic crisis. This is a more serious look at why we are in the soup that we are in. This conversation has been hosted by Digital Life Design -2009 in Munich. It is a conversation between two eminently insightful people: DANIEL KAHNEMAN who is [...]

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What caused the current economic woes?

Posted by Sai Panyam in Finance on March 10, 2009

This is a skit by Bird & Fortune’s Silly Money episode. It is quite humorous and sadly also true. It has an uncanny resemblance to the old Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister series. Albeit they were about bureaucracy, this is about the supposedly free and private companies. The take away: Greed rules and absolute greed [...]

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