The Horizons Tracker

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

While the metaverse sprang to public attention with the renaming of Facebook earlier this year, the phrase was coined back in 1996 in Neal Stephenson’s book Snow Crash, in which the science fiction author described an immersive version of the internet that was accessed via virtual reality.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age inspired Jeff Bezos to create the Kindle ; Sergey Brin mines Stephenson’s even more famous Snow Crash for insights into virtual reality.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device. Yet stories like the one above about Steve Jobs made us wonder: might there be some hidden benefits to overconfidence in the context of corporate leadership? You were betting on Steve Jobs.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2017

To drive home the urgency, the coalition’s website, CEOAction.com , directs visitors to research showing that diverse teams and inclusive leaders unleash innovation, eradicate groupthink, and spur market growth. At the Center for Talent Innovation, we wanted to look into these suspicions. But as Tim Ryan, U.S.

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