Life on the Road Blog

“All it takes are the policies to tap that potential — to ignite that spark of creativity and ingenuity — which has always been at the heart of who we are and how we succeed.”
(Who said this? - find out by reading the posting below…)

I feel at home in Europe, having grown up a citizen of cultures spanning the Atlantic. I’m what’s often called a Third Culture Kid.

So it was with great enthusiasm that I recently spent a week in Brussels at the invitation of my friend Attila Toth and the European Business Network to meet with members of the European Parliament and a vast network of businesses .  Although I spent a fair amount of my early childhood in Europe and have traveled there countless times as an adult, this trip left me with an entirely new set of insights into Europe, its challenges and opportunities for the coming decades.
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For those of you old enough to remember (I certainly am), this was the world of the future according to AT&T from the vantage point of 1993. Hard to believe that this was far fetched just 16 years ago. I used to joke that the “You Will” slogan was more of a threat than a promise, forever tethering us to our work. Little did I know how prophetic that statement was! What would your You Will add for the next 16 years look like?

File this under, “How low can you go?”

According to a Financial Times article India is planning to bring a $20 laptop PC to market. Don’t laugh, they brought a $2000 car to market, why not a $20 laptop.

Okay, I doubt I’ll be lining up to trade-in my MacBook Pro, but I’m not the target nor are you if you’re reading this. The target is the 4 billion people at the bottom of the economic pyramid who can’t even begin to consider the cost of a PC today.

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Short clip of excerpts from TK's innovation keynote

TK Interviewed on CN8 Cable Show New England NewsMakers

Innovation Master Class Promotional Video

TK on Innovation and Globalization

TK on Vision, Fear, and Knowledge

TK on the X-economy

TK on Uncertainty