Word: consumerization
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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His political career moved fast. Not long after he graduated from Yale Law School--student and then family deferments kept him out of the Vietnam draft--he decided, as everybody had always expected he would, to run for office. (At Yale they called him "Senator.") He was elected first to...
My mom has always been something of a gadget hound. The microwave. The cordless phone. The CD boom box. The Clapper. She was a consumer-electronics maven before it was fashionable. Radio Shack should have put her on its board of directors. So when she came to visit and started...
Luckily for both of us, Palm last week announced a machine aimed squarely at the home consumer that will be perfect for her: the m100, for $149. I immediately bought one on Amazon (although the product isn't expected to start shipping until later this week).
JERRY BERMAN, 60 Free speech on campus and beer in the Bear's Lair" was Jerry Berman's campaign slogan when he ran for student-body vice president at Berkeley in 1962. "I wanted the radicals," he recalls, "but I was trying to get the fraternity vote too." Berman lost...
The rise of sharing copyrighted materials online is indicative of big business's failure to keep pace with the American consumer. Napster-esque sites are not a symptom of the moral decay of Americans. Big business, learn from what Napster has shown you: We, the American consumer, want to buy...