Topic: North Korea

Retooling Technology

CNN has been airing a documentary about North Korea. As the hour-long program shows, dissidents are smuggling in digital cameras and recording the public executions of political activists, as well as glimpses of the country's famine ...READ»

What's The World's Biggest Challenge? Can Technologies Save Us? Or We Need To Rethink Economies And Ecologies?

If you ask me what’s the single biggest challenge, I’d say we simply have too many people. The place is too small for that many people and simply cannot support it. 25 years ago 2 billion people was already too many and soon ...READ»

What's the News About the Nightly News?

This month, Anne exchanges email with Tom Brokaw, anchor and managing editor, NBC Nightly News With Tom Brokaw.READ»

Work/Life: Why Work/Life Balance is Up in the Air

CEO Dad's Tuesday Tirade.... Ever since Tom Stern, the fellow who invented me, gave me my own Web address (ceodad.com), from this new electronic vantage point I’ve been able to tool around on the Internet with abandon. This is ...READ»

Slippery Slump

Technology may lead the way out of this recession ... but it isn't happening yet. Here is what technology vendors should do until the market is ready for a revival.READ»

Twenty Tweets #17

It is always a great aha! moment whenever you capture yourself doing a klutzy thing - for if I am transfering my personal orientated tweets to my blog, then I don't need all the paraphenelia of twitter shortform, though I will include ...READ»

When Should Government Intervene?

These days it's hard to go anywhere without hearing people say that the government should step in and do something about the offshoring trend -- that hemorrhaging of service sector (and, increasingly, of white collar) jobs from the ...READ»

Speedometer

Is war good for the stock market? Do we pay our warfighters enough? This month, we bring you the numbers behind the business of war.READ»

Bill and Kim's Excellently-Posed Adventure

What's up with that photo of Bill Clinton and Kim Jong Il that was released yesterday? Ken Carbone has some careful analysis.READ»

• Ken Carbone's Yes to Less blog

U.S. Recruiting Cyber Patriots to Defend the Interwebs

Don't panic, residents of the U.S. of A., your interWeb is safe: Soon 10,000 young cyber warriors will be bravely donning their unifo... uh, T-shirts, and clambering into their cockpi... uh, desks, ready to defend your networks from ...READ»

The Best (and Worst) Hacks of Defcon Computer Security Conference 2009

Computer security is a famously murky world that tends to generate alarmist headlines--like the ones about Apple's vulnerabilities from last week. Defcon 2009 has just finished, and lived up to this reputation in many, surprising, ...READ»

Fear: The Next Growth Business?

What recession? Last week, at the conference of the American Society for Industrial Security, companies showed off mission-critical technologies and wrestled with the challenges of hypergrowth. A dispatch from the front lines of the anxiety economy.READ»

Dictator Chic: BIG Wins Competition to Build National Library of Kazakhstan

BIG beat out Norman Foster and Zaha Hadid in a competition to architect the National Library of Kazakhstan--which happens to be a notoriously corrupt regime. Should we care?READ»

FastCompany's July/August 2008 Calendar

What's happening in July and August, from the G8 get-together to Bill Gates's last day on the job.READ»

• Convene: Donkeys & Elephants
• Numerology: Hot Dog!

The Brand Called Obama

Win or lose, Barack Obama's rise changes business as usual for everyone. Here's why.READ»

• How to Build a Brand Like Obama
• The Brand Called President
• How Obama Won It With the Web

Past Track to the Future

Stephen E. Ambrose has written best-selling histories of great feats of leadership and human endeavor. His insights from the past can teach a new generation of business leaders how to build for the future.READ»