“Most of our products suck or have no competitive advantage over any other. So we hired advertising agencies to create the illusion of a competitive advantage, but now our advertising has been commoditised. So the only thing you can do is to go back to your product and actually make it better. And that is by getting in the box and being good at the thing you do.”
Douglas Rushkoff, writer, columnist and lecturer on technology, media and popular culture.
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God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World (Vintage)
by Walter Russell Mead
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Isbn-13: 9780375713736
A stunningly insightful account of the global political and economic system, sustained first by Britain and now by America, that has created the modern world. The key to the two countries' predominance, Mead argues, lies in the individualistic ideology inherent in the Anglo-American religion. Over the years Britain and America's liberal democratic system has been repeatedly challeged—by Catholic Spain and Louis XIV, the Nazis, communists, and Al Qaeda—and for the most part, it has prevailed....
