Add it up

By Marc Levy

Published: February 29, 2004

This outsourcing stuff is exasperating, and there’s a lot out there to be exasperated by. Among the latest wrinkles: a class on outsourcing rushed together at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to answer student demand; and more wrongheaded justifications from New York Times weirdo Thomas L. Friedman, who says it’s “inevitable in a networked world [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, the comedy stylings of Bill Gates

By Marc Levy

Published: February 26, 2004

Bill Gates visited Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology today, prognosticating and pontificating. (Electronic paper was one of the key technologies he plugged, which must have been an attempt to ingratiate himself further at MIT, home of the Media Laboratory that gave it birth. Cambridge is also home to the company E-Ink, which [...]