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I confess that, like public figures from bygone days or an entertainer that hadn't been heard from in eons, I didn't know AIM, as we all called it, still existed at all.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Aim Been Confess Days Entertainer Existed Figures Heard Know Like Public Still

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AIM was so quaint, it organized users around 'buddy lists.' In a time before smartphones, AIM was powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their computers.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Aim Around Before Buddy Bursts Communicate Computers Generation Had Intoxicating Lists Once Organized People Phone Powerful Quick Time Users Way

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AIM started in 1997, and I remember when I started using it in earnest, in 1999, when I joined TheStreet.com from 'The San Jose Mercury News'. We digital journalism pioneers communicated obsessively by AIM, and as a newbie, I recall being amazed that the whole newsroom was 'chatting' this way.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Aim Amazed Being Chatting Digital Earnest Joined Journalism Mercury News Newsroom Pioneers Recall Remember Remember When San Started Using Way Whole I Remember

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Americans fear losing control if they're forced to ride in autonomous vehicles. These same Americans fly in airplanes every day that largely are flown by computers, and impressively efficient ones at that.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Airplane American Autonomous Computers Control Day Efficient Every Every Day Fear Flown Fly Forced Largely Losing Ride Same Vehicles

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Global affairs consultant Ian Bremmer, founder of the Eurasia Group, has started a newsletter called 'Signal,' aimed at millennials. For years, Bremmer has written a maddeningly all-lowercase yet fascinating weekly newsletter on geopolitics.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Affairs Consultant Fascinating Founder Global Group Millennials Signal Started Weekly Written Years

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Should Ford succeed in equipping all its cars with information that gets communicated back to its servers, it will become a 'big data' company, a beyond-vehicles opportunity that is as promising as it is murky.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Back Become Big Car Company Data Ford Gets Information Opportunity Promising Should Succeed Will

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Newfangled online sites like 'Business Insider' and 'Huffington Post' built businesses they later sold for hundreds of millions of dollars by ripping off the work of more talented journalists and then playing Google's digitally native games better than the old fogeys ever could.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Better Built Business Businesses Could Dollars Ever Games Google Hundreds Insider Journalists Later Like Millions Millions Of Dollars More Native Off Old Online Playing Post Ripping Sites Sold Talented Than Then Work

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The summer before my senior year in college, I talked my way into an unpaid internship on Capitol Hill. I was able to have this stimulating resume- and network- enhancing experience because my parents could afford to keep me clothed, housed, and fed in the nation's capital for 10 weeks.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Able Afford Because Before Capital Capitol Clothed College Could Enhancing Experience Fed Hill Keep Me Nation Network Parents Resume Senior Senior Year Stimulating Summer Talked Unpaid Way Weeks Year

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The creation of the 'Goldie Scholars' program is an acknowledgment that knowledge isn't enough.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: Acknowledgment Creation Enough Knowledge Program Scholars

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I've written repeatedly about the quest by corporations everywhere to transform themselves digitally.

~Adam Lashinsky

Topics: About Corporations Everywhere Quest Repeatedly Themselves Transform Written

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Editor

Born: Unknown

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