20 Years Providing Weekly Foresight

 

The most accurate predictive report on technology and the global economy,

read by leaders in industry, finance, and government worldwide.

 

 

 

 

In This Issue   Feature: Amazin   No Warehouse, No Inventory, No Way A Quick Reprise Amazon Web Services Content The Phone Hole Amazon Echo Amazon Prime Distribution: Drones, Trucks, Planes, Ships   Quotes of the Week   Takeout Window AMZN's Stock   Upgrades & Numbers Amazon's Current Physical Offices Around the World   Ethermail   Inside SNS   Upcoming SNS Events   Where's Mark?

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Please Join Us for the 2nd Annual

 

  SNS Predictions : West

Eleven years after holding our first annual Predictions Dinner in NYC, SNS is proud to announce the second annual SNS Predictions : West event, to be held Thursday, February 25, 5pm-8pm, at the Sofitel San Francisco Bay in Redwood City. 

 

The evening will begin with a Centerpiece Conversation featuring special guest Mark Hurd, CEO of Oracle, with Mark Anderson - followed by:

 

A presentation and discussion with Bill Ribaudo, National Managing Partner, Technology, Media and Telecommunications Industry, Deloitte & Touche LLP, on a joint SNS / Deloitte project: "Company and Country Business Models: Impact on Valuations, Measurement, and Worth."

 

 

 

The evening will conclude with a discussion by Mark Anderson of global technology and economic landscapes in 2016, featuring the firm's recent successes in predicting The Oil Price Collapse and the China Collapse, and  finishing with a discussion of the SNS Top Ten Technology and Market Predictions for 2016.

 

Those who joined us last year know that this is a great evening for making new connections, socially and intellectually. We're delighted to be coming back to the Valley to talk about the future.

The evening includes two receptions (before and after the event) with drinks and hors d'oeuvres.

 

Price is $95 - Seating is limited - Register now*:  www.stratnews.com/events/west

 

For Agenda details, visit: www.stratnews.com/events/west/agenda

 

I hope you'll join us for this second annual SNS Predictions : West evening. You may see some familiar faces, and will surely meet new and future colleagues for the first time, in an evening of lively conversation onstage and off. You'll also come away with an invaluable tool: being that much smarter about practical issues that will affect us all, and getting a clearer view of threats and opportunities in the year to come. - mra.

 

 

*Upon registration, non-SNS members will receive a complimentary

 1-month subscription to the weekly SNS Global Report.

 

 

	Stealth Japan: The Surprise Success of the World's First InfoMerc Economy, by Scott Foster     And -
	Theft Nation white paper - as featured on CBS' 60 Minutes - "How IP Theft Drives the Chinese National Business Model, and Its Effect Upon the Global Economy," by Evan R. Anderson

 

 

I remember the day I learned that my good friend Larry Tesler had been quietly hired by Jeff Bezos to work on a top-secret Amazon project. Larry is one of the best programmers in the world, one of the wizards - as well as having been Apple chief scientist under Steve Jobs and creating the Compel language. He later licensed the Cocoa language, upon which he co-founded Stagecast.

 

Since Amazon seemed pretty pedestrian in its programming at the time, I was curious: what could Jeff want with Larry? My recollection is that a couple of years passed during which Larry commuted back and forth between Seattle and Palo Alto, and then he decided to call it quits. During that time, there was no outward manifestation of his work; for all I knew, he could have been curating the corporate art collection.

 

Except, of course, he was Larry.

 

In a future issue, I'm going to write about the unbelievable amount of power single individuals have over today's technological terrain; for the time being, let's just note that there are a very limited number of wizards on the planet, and Larry is one of them.