William J. Raduchel is a strategic advisor on technology and media, independent director and angel investor. He has taught corporate strategy at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University for six years. From June 2006 through June 2011, he was chairman of Opera Software ASA, and from March 2004 through June 2006 of Ruckus Network. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer of AOL Time Warner and chief strategy officer of Sun Microsystems, following senior executive roles at Xerox Corporation and McGraw-Hill, Inc. At Sun he was recognized as both CFO and CIO of the year and at AOL as CTO of the year. He was the chair of the committee on copyright and innovation in the digital era for the National Academy of Sciences and is in his thirteenth year serving on the national advisory board for the Salvation Army. He has twenty-one issued and several pending U.S. patents. Raduchel received his B.A. in economics from Michigan State University in 1966 and earned his A.M. (1968) and Ph.D. (1972) degrees in economics at Harvard. Michigan Technological University gave him an honorary D.B.A. in 2002.
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New Taxes Could Help Manage Big Tech
We have to find ways to level the playing field or this small group of vastly-powerful companies will continue to amass disproportionate wealth even as they wreak social havoc. Without major systemic changes society will remain the victim of their ever-growing power.
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Techonomy 15
Technology as scapegoat has driven fears since at least the industrial revolution. That is as true as ever today, with fears of privacy intrusion, our devices inducing inattention, withdrawal from human contact into screens, job-killing robots, and innumerable business models being destroyed.
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Techonomy 14
This year Techonomy moves to the beautiful Ritz-Carlton Half Moon Bay, November 9-11, on the cliffs south of San Francisco, near Silicon Valley.
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Techonomy 13
A new society is coming into being. People around the world are building it using the rapidly-evolving tools of technology.
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Techonomy 12
Techonomy focuses on how the exponential pace of technology progress makes possible a new world. A wave of accelerating change driven by technology’s advance is washing over our lives, bringing great potential for business and social progress.
