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Uncommon Sense: Out of the Box Thinking for An In the Box World

ISBN: 978-1-84112-477-3
Paperback
254 pages
April 2004, Capstone
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Standby xi

Where Did This Book Come From? xv

Byte 00 – Boot Up 1

Byte 01 – Education That Doesn’t Fit 8

Byte 02 – Conference Turnaround 13

Byte 03 – Salesmanship 17

Byte 04 – The Coming Oil Crisis 22

Byte 05 – Summits, Models and Machines 26

Byte 06 – Counter-Intuitive Networks 30

Byte 07 – Linear and Non-Linear 35

Byte 08 – Exponential Growth – So Misunderstood 40

Byte 09 – Don’t Make Life Harder Than It Already Is 48

Byte 10 – The 3G Chasm – Deeper Than We Thought 53

Byte 11 – Science and Belief 58

Byte 12 – Cochrane’s Law of Secretaries 63

Byte 13 – Control Freaks – Scales of Grey 67

Byte 14 – Butterfl yWings.com 72

Byte 15 – Short-Term Economics 78

Byte 16 – No Market Savvy 82

Byte 17 – How Was Christmas Online For You? 85

Byte 18 – Wrong Shopping Protocol 90

Byte 19 – Chips in Everything – Including Me 95

Byte 20 – The Cyborgs Are Here 99

Byte 21 – Web Realities 103

Byte 22 – Another Management Goof! 107

Byte 23 – Porno or No Porno? 111

Byte 24 – Uncontrollable Bits 115

Byte 25 – Who Goes There? 119

Byte 26 – Wireless Everything 123

Byte 27 – Communications Compromised 127

Byte 28 – Insecure Thinking 132

Byte 29 – Wear, Where, Were-ables 137

Byte 30 – How Many Mobile Phones Do You Need? 141

Byte 31 – The Right Technology For The Right Job 145

Byte 32 – Network Power 149

Byte 33 – DIY Networking 154

Byte 34 – Stupid Entertainment 159

Byte 35 – Net Police 164

Byte 36 – Who’d Be a Copyright Lawyer? 168

Byte 37 – Software Licensing – Time To Get Angry 172

Byte 38 – Technology Fatigue 176

Byte 39 – Circuit or Packet – Clean or Dirty? 180

Byte 40 – It’s Our Brains That Lack Bandwidth 184

Byte 41 – Save Everything – But Don’t Be Tidy 189

Byte 42 – The Blue Sack 193

Byte 43 – Being a Squirrel 197

Byte 44 – Reliability and Downtime 203

Byte 45 – Screen Tests 208

Byte 46 – G-Force 212

Byte 47 – Naturism in Engineering 216

Byte 48 – An Invisible Revolution 222

Byte 49 – The Lull Before – Smarter Machines? 227

Byte 50 – Sleep? 231

Index 235

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