High technology industry executive, venture capitalist and author of the thought provoking and insightful book OVERconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet, William H. Davidow, describes how the explosive growth of the internet has also created some unique hazards. With everyone being connected to the point of perhaps being overconnected there are serious challenges being created for government, business, social institutions, and entire economies. Along with the benefits of being connected, being overconnected creates systems with excessive feedback leading to greater volatility and potential for accidents. William Davidow places the potential dangers of overconnection into a unique historical and real world perspective, and offers suggestions to prevent possible future problems.
William Davidow is my internet radio show guest on Blog Business Success; hosted live on BlogTalkRadio.
The show airs live on Thursday, March 3, at 8:00 pm Eastern Time; 5:00 pm Pacific Time.
High technology industry executive, venture capitalist and author of the thought provoking and insightful book OVERconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet, William H. Davidow, describes how the explosive growth of the internet has also created some unique hazards. You will learn:
* Why the Internet is accident prone due to being so interconnected
* Why everything being connected to everything poses a real societal risk
* How the systemic feedback accelerated the Icelandic financial meltdown
* How the Internet can be made less volatile and pose less risk to everyone
William H. Davidow (photo left) has been a high-technology industry executive and a venture investor for more than 30 years. He has been directly involved in building pivotal companies in Silicon Valley including FormFactor, MIPS, Rambus, and Vitesse.
Bill continues as an active advisor to Mohr Davidow. He is the author of Marketing High Technology and a co-author of Total Customer Service and The Virtual Corporation. His new book, OVERconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet, launched January 4, 2011.
While at Intel Corp., Bill served as senior vice president of marketing and sales, vice president of the microcomputer division and vice president of the microcomputer systems division. Prior to Intel Corp., Bill worked in various managerial positions at Hewlett Packard and General Electric.
Bill earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Dartmouth College, a master's degree in electrical engineering from both Dartmouth College and the California Institute of Technology, and a doctorate in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
His community involvement extends to serving on the boards of California Institute of Technology, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He also sits on the Foundation Board of UCSF Medical Center.
My book review of OVERconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet by William H. Davidow.
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Let's talk with high technology industry executive, venture capitalist and author of the thought provoking and insightful book OVERconnected: The Promise and Threat of the Internet, William H. Davidow, as he describes how the explosive growth of the internet has also created some unique hazards. With everyone being connected to the point of perhaps being overconnected there are serious challenges being created for government, business, social institutions, and entire economies. Along with the benefits of being connected, being overconnected creates systems with excessive feedback leading to greater volatility and potential for accidents. William Davidow places the potential dangers of overconnection into a unique historical and real world perspective, and offers suggestions to prevent possible future problems on Blog Business Success Radio.
