The Economist tracks the fall of Kodak from an industrial giant to a company on the verge of bankruptcy.
Depressing but fascinating stats over at Fast Company: Despite great gains in house design and electric appliance energy use, gross domestic energy consumption in the US has barely declined since 1978. (latest stats from 2005) The culprit? Innovation. Well, electronic gadgets.
The Fast Company guys said it well: "With all these gadgets, we're burning enough electricity to erase the last 30 years of innovation." Creative destruction or destructive creation?
- sezflom