Month: November 2015
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Inventing The Networked, Streamlined Federal Enterprise — a.k.a., “Government 3.0”
I’ve Gotta Wear Shades The federal government has long made use of vendors to provide everything from equipment to IT support. Today, it is expanding on that reliance and increasingly moving toward a futuristic business model that emphasizes interagency cooperation, shared services, and even shared workspaces: Agencies paying other agencies to do work for them,…
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Where Men Are People & Women, Dolls: A Review Of Ridley Scott’s "The Martian"
An otherwise outstanding movie is marred by the pervasive portrayal of men as complicated, three-dimensional beings versus women who exist mostly to nod their heads and smile. Matt Damon of course is phenomenal. As NASA Astronaut Mark Watley, stranded on Mars after a mission gone bad, he breathes life into the role of a man…