Technology spurring a new manufacturing revolution NEIL REYNOLDS – The Globe and Mail Thomas Edison established his famous inventor’s lab in Menlo Park, N.J., in 1876, three years into the longest, and perhaps meanest, worldwide depression in modern times – leading to the scientific breakthrough of incandescent light and, a few years later, General Electric. […]

MSP News The merits of offshoring have been long-debated, and according to some end users, the practice of offshoring to lower-cost geographical locations may not be working, according to a recent CBS news interview, referenced in a recent article written by the MSPAlliance’s Charles Weaver. […]

Have you gotten the memo yet? You can stop worrying about peak oil: the United States is sitting on centuries of natural gas and Canada is full of tar sands. But then there is water. No less than Morgan Stanley Smith Barney declared “peak water” the challenge of the century last December in a report […]

With so much talk these days of America’s decline, it may sound strange to ponder the prospects for an American economic boom a decade or so from now. But that’s the thrust of two new studies, which have me thinking like Dr. Pangloss, Voltaire’s caricature of optimism. These analyses predict the repair of two of […]