Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TED. Show all posts

Friday, December 27, 2013

Extremes

Trying to save seconds... in a distribution facility.



Trying to save hours/days... the speaker wasted a day walking to get medicine from a person that didn't have it.



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Sunday, September 25, 2011

The Six Killer Apps of Prosperity

Another intereting TED Talk...

Niall Ferguson - The Six Killer Apps of Prosperity:

1. Competition
2. The Scientific Revolution
3. Property rights
4. Modern medicine
5. The consumer society
6. The work ethic

 

Definitely worth 15-20 minutes of your time to listen to his discussion of why some regions have been more prosperous over time and why they may be losing that advantage now. He suggests that "we" aren't paying attention. I submit that if would read half the blogs I follow, he would know that many of us are acutely aware of the decline.

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