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Conservatives, Climate Change, and the Carbon Tax
Global warming has for a long time been a partisan issue rather than a purely scientific one--and in important respects, conservatives have painted themselves into a corner. Based on the reasonable expectation that admitting a problem would lead to a huge government power-grab, those conservatives with access to the biggest megaphones have long used scientific uncertainty to avoid the issue. That game is up, and they suddenly find themselves walking unprepared into the middle of a sophisticated scientific and economic conversation about how to deal with the problem. While a few conservative think tanks have considered these issues seriously for some time, the public discussion has until recently been conducted largely among various liberal factions and has turned into a technical debate about differing schemes for taxing emissions of carbon dioxide.
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Productivity: faith isn't enough
The huge investments in information technology have not resulted in measurable productivity gains. Corporations that have invested over $1 trillion in the information technology industry over the past decade are wondering where the payoff is. Although it remains difficult to measure productivity gains, few of these companies would be willing to do without the new technologies. The problems are not with the technology, but with its management; the key to productivity with computers is how they are used. Technology reaches its potential only when it fits into the organization's structure and helps achieve organizational goals.
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Challenges of unmet promises
The 1980s will be defined as the dawning of the information age, an era when computers moved from the laboratory to the lap and satellite dishes made their way from radar stations to rooftops, providing Americans and others around the world with almost instantaneous access to information. One of the unmet promises of technology is that people have more information but not necessarily any greater understanding of the world around them. This is a challenge that Lotus Development Corp. and other hardware and software suppliers will have to meet in the 1990s. Another challenge will be having to meet the service requirements of customers who are attempting to take maximum advantage of the advances in hardware and software that have occurred in the past 10 years. Meeting the advances of foreign competitors, particularly the Japanese, is still another challenge of the 1990s.
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Groupware: Future prospects and scenarios
Workgroup computing takes computing away from the isolated desktop and brings it to the essential front-line activities of the enterprise. Workgroup computing must span multiple operating systems and cross-platforms. The question of security becomes crucial when a company shares information across organizational lines with employees, suppliers, and customers. Replication - the ability to copy all or part of a data base from one server and distribute it on all others - is a required technology to ensure that all participants in a workgroup computing environment are working with the same set of information. Group enabling is clearly the next stage of development in traditional desktop applications for all software companies.
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Contrary to Success
[...]in capitalist reality as distinguished from its textbook picture, it is not [traditional price] competition which counts but the competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization (the large-scale unit of control, for instance)-competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms but at their foundations and their very lives. The whole focus of BCG was to help large, established companies achieve competitive advantage in the sense described by Schumpeter.\\n The key institutions that define what is distinctive about Western civilization-science, free markets, democracy-share many important features beneath the skin.
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