Published by Forbes on 8/10/09:

Over the past 15 years, the World Wide Web has created remarkable new business models reshaping our economy. As the Web has undermined old media and software companies, it has demonstrated the enormous power of a new model, often referred to as Web...

In my talks this year, I have been outlining some of the world's great problems, highlighting some of the things that are being done by technology innovators to solve them, and urging my listeners to "work on stuff that matters."

We are in unprecedented times. And...

I felt a thrill, almost of familiarity, as I approached the hilltop fortress of Mycenae, set on a precipitous ridge between twinned mountains, Profitis Ilias to the north and Sara to the south. Perhaps it's my childhood fascination with ancient Greece, which took me through an undergraduate degree in Classics...

That's from Virgil, not one of the Greeks, but it captures the mood of the day. We visited the Athenian Agora and the Archaeological Museum, and in both places, it was the touch of mortality that brought the most significance to the day.

How amazing was it to visit the...