William H. Davidow
Auteur de The Virtual Corporation: Structuring and Revitalizing the Corporation for the 21st Century
A propos de l'auteur
William H. Davidow has been a high-technology industry executive and a venture investor for more than 30 years, having worked at managerial positions at Intel Corp., Hewlett Packard and General Electric. He is now an active advisor to Mohr Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm. An electrical afficher plus engineer by training, he has earned degrees at Dartmouth College, the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University and is the author of Marketing High Technology and a co-author of Total Customer Service and The Virtual Corporation. afficher moins
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- Nom canonique
- Davidow, William H.
- Nom légal
- Davidow, William Henry
- Date de naissance
- 1935
- Sexe
- male
- Lieux de résidence
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Courte biographie
- Dr. William H. Davidow has been a general partner of Mohr, Davidow Ventures, a venture capital firm, since 1985. Dr. Davidow holds an A.B. and a M.S. in electrical engineering from Dartmouth College, a M.S. in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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- Œuvres
- 13
- Membres
- 349
- Popularité
- #68,500
- Évaluation
- 3.1
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 25
- Langues
- 5
The authors appear well informed but from books like this I expect insights, not just facts, especially since none of them are obscure. Having said that, not many books I've read bring attention to the information we leak constantly about ourselves (by, for example, reviewing books online) that can and will be used against us in forms that we don't anticipate. Forget about the government coming to lock you up for wrongthink, unless you live in the UK, think about your social credit score used by your future employer. You thought that only exists in China? China has it centralised and run by the government, we have it as part of our free market. For some reason the author thinks this is somehow in the future while it's very much already in the present. And I'm not talking about employers checking your social media or some similar low-tech approach. Kudos for highlighting this problem.
Bizarrely though the author looks at everything from the government's perspective (as far as I can tell neither of them is a politician) and his only solutions are just pointless legislation that is about as likely to work as GDPR (which he appears to be positive on). The data broker idea isn't a technical(ly feasible) solution either - just more impossible legislation.… (plus d'informations)