Hal Varian
Hal Varian
Hal Ronald Varianis an economist specializing in microeconomics and information economics. He is the chief economist at Google and he holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. He has written two bestselling textbooks: Intermediate Microeconomics, an undergraduate microeconomics text, and Microeconomic Analysis, an advanced text. Together with Carl Shapiro, he co-authored Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy and The Economics of Information...
people possible victim
It's possible it could be a victim of its own success. As more people chime in, you get a cacophony.
imagine
Imagine that the blackboard is an N-dimensional manifold.
fun thinking
It's a fun thing. Now one of the things we're thinking about is what to do with it.
manager members project rest
A project manager isn't just interfacing with members of the project. He's also interfacing with the rest of the organization.
book technology uc-berkeley
It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.
innovation important world
Brynjolfsson and McAfee take us on a whirlwind tour of innovators and innovations around the world. But this isn't just casual sightseeing. Along the way, they describe how these technological wonders came to be, why they are important, and where they are headed.
thinking train-stations ifs
If a train stops at a train station, what do you think happens at a work station?
jobs hands years
How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this ‘job displacement’ has been very welcome, as will the ‘job displacement’ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.
sexy jobs years
I keep saying that the sexy job in the next 10 years will be statisticians, and I'm not kidding.
data problem obesity
We used to be calorie poor and now the problem is obesity. We used to be data poor, now the problem is data obesity.
sexy jobs thinking
I keep saying the sexy job in the next ten years will be statisticians. People think I'm joking, but who would've guessed that computer engineers would've been the sexy job of the 1990s?
people google full-potential
Google will make us more informed. The smartest person in the world could well be behind a plow in China or India. Providing universal access to information will allow such people to realize their full potential, providing benefits to the entire world.
dose start using
The first dose is free. Once you start using a product, you keep using it.
accurate expected experience literature
I was a little surprised. I expected this to be accurate because there's a lot of literature and experience with these systems. But this has been even better than I expected.