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Google’s chief economist explains value in era of endless info

Hal R. Varian quoted in Wired: Varian believes that a new era is dawning for what you might call the datarati—and it’s all about harnessing supply and demand. ‘What’s ubiquitous and cheap?’ Varian asks. ‘Data.’ And what is scarce? The analytic ability to utilize that data.” Providing information analysis is a task that is related to but [...]
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In shift to virtual life, profit lacks purpose

With a steady flow of information highlighting the news industry’s woes, I couldn’t help but begin to wonder about the Internet’s transformation of the larger economic and cultural structures in which businesses, people and, oh, everything else, operate. In the most dramatically general sense, the human race is shifting from reality to virtual reality. This is [...]
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