Insanity Redux

American writer Rita Mae Brown – self styled Literary Rabble-Rouser is a super-prolific author. Brown has been publicly active and supportive of various human rights campaigns and causes, but I heard about her when a friend told me about the American author who wrote fantastic detective books with her cat as co-author. This is how… Continue reading Insanity Redux

Disintermediation looms

A few years ago, Canadian business guru Don Tapscott published a book called “The Digital Economy.” There, for the first time, I heard the term disintermediation. Tapscott is widely credited with coining the term and his book is regarded as foreteller (almost prophetically) of the state of digital economy today, 10 years on. Simply put,… Continue reading Disintermediation looms