For Nine Years, Newsletter Has Alerted Readers To 'Early Indications'
Since October 1997, John Jordan, executive director of the eBusiness Research Center at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been publishing an electronic newsletter that examines emerging technologies and how they impact business and society.
For Nine Years, Newsletter Has Alerted Readers To 'Early Indications'
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (September 27, 2006) – Since October 1997, John
Jordan, executive director of the eBusiness Research Center at Penn
State's Smeal College of Business, has been publishing an electronic
newsletter that examines emerging technologies and how they impact
business and society.
Each month in Early Indications, Jordan identifies tech
companies on the cusp, presents analysis of trends in e-business, or
offers predictions on everything from the next major consumer
technology to what the big tech buzzwords will be in the coming year.
A recent edition features Jordan's take on digital copyright
infringement, the multitude of technologies being used to combat it,
and their implications for consumer fair use.
"The digital asset copying problem is unprecedented, so new kinds
and degrees of measures will be required," he writes in the August 2006
issue. "At the same time, the legitimacy of certain forms of
copying—for preservation, backup, or fair use—means that broad
prohibitions enforced in a general-purpose computing platform, come at
an extremely high price to the purchasers and users of software and
other digital media. No single answer will apply in every market to
every application."
Jordan started Early Indications, which has appeared on The Wall Street Journal's
Recommended Reading list, to fill a void he saw in the reporting of how
computers and technology are changing the way we live and work.
Prior to joining the eBusiness Research Center, Jordan served as
principal at Capgemini, a global business and technology consulting
firm, where he analyzed e-commerce success stories like Amazon, Linux,
and eBay. His consulting experience extends across industries and
geography, with engagements on four continents. Before he entered
consulting, Jordan won teaching awards at the University of Michigan
and Harvard University.
For a free subscription to the newsletter, send an e-mail to Heather Weikel at hmw2@psu.edu. The current issue can be accessed on the eBusiness Research Center Web site at www.smeal.psu.edu/research/ebrc. Past issues are available online at earlyindications.blogspot.com.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
