About: William Holstein
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Series of conversations about “The Next American Economy” – Video 1 of 7
What’s Truly Important about Chinese Economic Ambitions
I’m reading a lot of blather these days about how fast the Chinese economy is growing, and can continue to grow, and about how soon its total size will surpass that of the United States. These are the wrong questions to be asking. The Chinese, with four times as many people as the United States, […]…
The Scientific Method
This package of stories about the future of scientific innovation for Compass magazine challenged me, but I hope all of you find it informative. To see the complete package of stories, go to compassmag.3ds.com. This is the lead story and it has just been published. THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD New technology is changing how research […]…
A Revealing Account of How The U.S. Often Doesn’t Commercialize Its Own Technology
One of the drums that I keep beating is that we Americans need to do a better job of commercializing the ideas that come out of what I call our “idea factories”–our universities, research institutes, and weapons labs. We blew it with the transistor, for example, and the Japanese took the idea and created the […]…
