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Gadgetopia: Chasing After an Elusive Dream

By Sam Pizzigati
April 29, 2012

Bits and bytes would be doing a lot more to help make our lives less nasty, brutish, and short if we shared wealth as routinely as bandwidth. From San Francisco, a new lesson in that reality.

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China Says It Doesn't Steal, Gets Caught Stealing

By Dave Johnson
November 23, 2010

China claims it originated or bought technology for their high-speed rail projects, and didn't steal it. This is a Google translation -- Refuting the State Intellectual Property Office of China's high-speed rail: more »

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Tech trade deficit with China costs US 627,700 jobs 2001-2008, could exceed $90 billion in 2010

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U.S. Census Bureau. "Trade in Goods with Advance Technology Products." Job statistic from Robert E. Scott, "Unfair China Trade Costs Local Jobs," Economic Policy Institute. March 23, 2010. Other research from MBG Information Systems. Click here for a larger version of this chart.

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Fixing Jobs: Normal Isn’t An Option

By Dave Johnson
December 2, 2009

The “Jobs Summit” is Thursday. Are they going to try to get things back to normal? I hope not!

“Normal” isn’t an option anymore, because it is what led to where we are. more »

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George Wiman
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Hometown: Normal, IL
Interests: Progressive Vision, Environment, Science, Technology
Honors: None, yet

Profits Higher At Military Contractors

From nytimes.com
October 25th, 2007
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