18 Years Providing Weekly Foresight

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Join Bob Bishop Founder and president of the ICES Foundation and past CEO of Silicon Graphics and a global leader in visualization and planet-size Big Data

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SNS Book Selection:

Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment; edited by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko  (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

Platform Wars: Who Wins

Last week I had the opportunity of speaking on a panel for the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Northwest on the subject of "platform wars." Our task was to pick winners from among "Microsoft vs. Google (Samsung) vs. Apple vs. Amazon vs. Facebook" and any others on the horizon. My fellow discussants were Al Hilwa, program director at IDC, and Steve Tapia, senior corporate counsel at DIREC TV Sports Networks.

MIT asked me to do an interview before the event as a preview of my thoughts; it can be found here:

<www.mitwa.org/events/enterprise-forum-program/platform-wars-coming-tech-wreck-seattle>