The Digitization of Everything
Most companies understand the need to adapt to the evolving use of technology in their operations. What they do not realize is how little time they have to address these changes. It took more than 70 years for telephones to penetrate 50% households, 28 years for radio and 10 for Internet access. But the future will see adoption rates measured in weeks and days rather than years. Google+, the new social media tool from Google, took only 16 days to reach 10 million users, compared with 780 days for Twitter and 852 days for Facebook. The future will happen much faster than that. Magazine: Performance, Ernst & Young, 2012 Books
From Melancholia to Prozac A History of Depression Author: Clark Lawlor Publisher: Oxford University Press, April 2012 Clark Lawlor argues that understanding the history of depression is important to understanding its present conflicted status. Our modern understanding of the word 'depression' was formed in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. The condition, originally known as melancholia, was characterised by symptoms like chronic causeless sadness and fear. The 'new' form of depression, defined in the 1980s and treated by drugs like Prozac, is under attack by many theories that reject the biomedical model and demand a more humanistic idea of depression. Drugs - Without the Hot Air Minimising the Harms of Legal and Illegal Drugs Author: David Nutt Publisher: UIT Cambridge, 2012 Prof. David Nutt ("the scientist sacked by U.K. government") explains in simple language for the lay person what drugs are, how they affect the body and the mind, and why people take them and get addicted to them. He shows how to quantify the overall harms of a drug, addressing issues like direct danger of death, environmental, financial and family factors etc. Finally, he recommends how society ought to address drugs and drug-taking, to minimize the harms at every level. September 2012Executive Knowledge Lines39