(DRAFT AS OF THURS APRIL 26, 2007) Transparent Bundles I started this blog three years ago, in the spring of 2004. I was working on a new research model for hedge funds that told stories using data, culled from the Internet. We did not believe that the god-analyst structure of the pre-bubble tech brokers (Salomon/Grubman, […]
Monthly Archives: April 2007
Tom Glocer, CEO of Reuters, stands in front of Media Futures at the Open Data Conference in NY And so, what does exhibitionism have to do with Wall Street? How does the voyueristic behavior of 20-somethings relate to the commission decisions of hedge fund masters of the universe? Traditionally, very little. Or at least […]
Web Alchemy Exactly two years ago, in April 2005, I wrote the first chapter on Alchemy in the Media Futures series. Over the course of history, Alchemy always promised more than it could deliver. But it was this promise that captured the imagination of people and drew their Attention to the very impossibility of turning […]
The History of Alchemy Practiced in civilizations across the world from ancient times up through the 19th century, the early proto-scientific and philosophical discipline of alchemy is most widely understood as the quest to achieve the transmutation of base metals into the precious metals of gold or silver, as well as the creation of a […]
