Fluid and crystallized intelligence

and institutional commitment to cyberspace research was still focussed on data manipulation – just as Gibson’s zaibastu did in Neuromancer. Gibson’s cowboys were outlaws in a military-industrial fairyland dominated by supercomputers, artificial intelligence devices and databanks. Humans were present, but their effect was minimal. There is no reason to believe that the cyberspaces being designed at NASA or in Florida would be any different” (444). Gibson’s vision of Cyberspace revolves around the…

In life there are good times and bad times, well life for me started on Monday April 1, 1987 3: 00 pm at the jubilee hospital to my grateful parents Fredericka and Devon Blake. I was now making my first appearance into the world. My mother told me that I was the best thing to happen in her life and she thank god that I was safely delivered in to the world without anything bad happening to me. My father and mother said that I was a precious and valuable gift from god. After my appearance I was…

Unfortunately, some companies have mismanaged their greatest asset—their brands. This is what befell the popular Snapple brand almost as soon as Quaker Oats bought the beverage marketer for $1.7 billion in 1994. Snapple had become a hit through powerful grassroots marketing and distribution through small outlets and convenience stores. Analysts said that because Quaker did not understand the brand’s appeal, it made the mistake of changing the ads and the distribution. Snapple lost so much…