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"Mark Anderson is the most famous technology forecaster in the world." Paul Ricci, Chairman and CEO of Nuance, in an introduction to the Chairman's Club in Mayakoba, Mexico, last week.

 

 

The SNS Favorite Book Selection of the Week:  I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words, edited by George Beahm (Agate B2). 

 

 

 

 

 

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» It's the Network

 

It's easy to understand why so many people have thus far missed the significance of the subject of this week's discussion. After all:

 

1. We've all just come back (literally, all of us) from a CES show that spent all of its pomp on devices, and almost not a whisper on bandwidth;

 

2. We are the victims of so much fraud at the hands of the carriers that it's impossible to get excited about, or even believe, anything having to do with them;

 

3. The world seems pretty set in its big-trend ways, so what's new to get excited about?

 

There are other excuses, all of them reasonable. Here are a few examples: