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I believe the most important thing Americans must do is to secure their economic well-being in an increasingly challenging, complex world. What I have written about all these years is the process of creating wealth, not for any one individual, but for the United States as a whole. Ever since I was a young correspondent witnessing the emergence of China after the country opened in 1979, I’ve believed we have to get more serious about creating wealth. I retain faith in the resiliency of the U.S. economy and the enterprise of American people. If Americans have the right strategies, we can once again create widespread wealth. Come with me on this journey.
Toyota Take Four–An Intriguing Drivers Heads-up Display
July 6, 2014
Sept. 7, 2014–One of the major questions about building more intelligent cars, and perhaps ones that are ultimately self-driving, is how information is communicated to the driver. Today’s technology would allow an absolute flood of information to reach the driver, but the risk of course is that it would cause driver distraction. The traditional goal […]
Toyota Take Three–How LIDAR helps cars “see
July 5, 2014
This is what I look like when a car equipped with LIDAR scans me at a distance of 20 feet. (The dark object on my chest is my ID tag.) LIDAR is a remote sensing technology that measures distance by illuminating me with a laser and analyzing the light that gets reflected. It is one […]
A Ride in Toyota’s Next Generation “Intelligent” Vehicle
July 4, 2014
In downtown Detroit, Toyota offered rides in Lexus’s equipped with Automated Highway Driving Assist. This car is equipped with three new types of driver’s assistance–dynamic (or adaptive) cruise control, lane trace control and a predictive Human-Machine Interface. The cruise control does more than today’s cruise controls because it will apply the brakes and actually […]
Zero Highway Fatalities–Why Not
July 4, 2014
4 September 2014 – 1:52pm We’ve made progress in reducing the number of highway fatalities each year in this country from about 41,000 to 32,000 in 2013. That’s positive obviously, but stop to think about it. We still have 32,000 Americans dying every year, a shocking number. Aside from more seat-belt use and tighter enforcement […]
Lenovo Goes Global
July 3, 2014
Aug. 15, 2014–This has just been posted by Strategy + Business and will appear in its print edition soon. You also can see it at www.strategy-business.com. China’s most recognizable brand has plans to overtake Apple and Samsung. by William J. Holstein Lenovo technicians at work All photographs courtesy of Lenovo In the beginning, it was […]
How Companies Manage to Endure
July 2, 2014
Whether a company lasts for the long term or not depends on how top executives manage it every day: From Chief Executive magazine: The Secrets of Corporate Longevity In an age when Microsoft can pile up tens of billions in cash in a little more than two decades, one might well argue that firms should […]
