For the last few years, like many web users, I’ve felt that search was solved. Google filled all my needs in ways that Altavista, Lycos and Yahoo never had. The statistics support that feeling: Google now has 63.5% market share in search and through its AdWords and AdSense programs it has developed a staggering money [...]
(Originally published in World Link, January, 2000) The programme of the Annual Meeting in 1900 reveals the inadequacies of predicting the future, but reminds us why we should attempt it anyway The recent discovery of the programme for the 1900 Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos was surprising for a number of [...]
Originally published in the Financial Times, July 25, 2003 When I graduated from Princeton University 25 years ago, students were mobilised around the anti-apartheid campaign. The last American troops had pulled out of Vietnam during my four years at university. The world was pre-Reagan and Thatcher. Princeton’s elite eating clubs, vividly captured by old boy [...]