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| For the past three years, the living room has been the center of the digital gold rush. Consumers have fueled the rush as they upgraded to large-screen TVs, audio systems that promise Dolby ��쐓urround sound,��� and DVD players that deliver super-crisp images. |
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Video Gaming Becomes |
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| The market for home video games is only 30 years old. It began in 1975, when Atari released a home version of Pong. Global industry sales of home video games totaled $28 billion in 2002, the last year for which reliable worldwide industry figures are available. In the same year, U.S. sales of computer and video game hardware and software exceeded $11 billion and probably surpassed $13 billion in 2003. |
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Companies Become Sel |
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| As firms develop a peripheral nervous system composed of sensors and a central nervous system with computers that enables the firm to learn, adapt and innovate, we have to ask, ��쏦ow will those firms be organized and managed to extract the maximum value from these capabilities?��� |
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Companies Learn and |
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| Most organisms behave like complex adaptive systems. As their parts sense and respond to conditions outside the system that constantly change, each part interacts with and influences the other parts in the system. Ultimately, this yields new patterns of behavior for the overall system. |
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The Post-PC Era is E |
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| Perhaps no other invention revolutionized the world as profoundly as the personal computer. From the clunky, bug-ridden devices that were assembled from mail-order parts by a small number of geeks in garages in the 1970s ?to the sleek machines of today, the PC has become a vital tool in the work and personal lives of nearly every American. |
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