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Hello from Europe!

Speed Curve

To overcome some of these challenges, we built our own Java-based player, complete with caching, content compression, and even bandwidth detection so it could switch between video, audio, and text versions of a course depending on network speed. Ultimately the business didn’t survive the dotcom bust, but it lit a spark.

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Lost Productivity or Found Hyperefficiency?

The Agile Manager

There is an alternative perspective that is far more optimistic : digital companies drive down costs through hyper-efficiency (speed, automation and machine scale) and price transparency. Ride sharing services have added driver/fleet capacity and accelerated speed-of-access for local transportation service.

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