Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
valleys world india
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
ecosystems innovation fuel
Do you know what my favorite renewable fuel is? An ecosystem for innovation.
ebay order pouring
Our bailout of Detroit will be remembered as the equivalent of pouring billions of taxpayers' money into the mail-order catalogue business on the eve of the birth of eBay.
mistake men talking
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.
kings good-day bad-day
If we don't have a more serious energy policy, the difference between a good day and bad day for America from here on will hinge on how the 86-year-old king of Saudi Arabia manages...change.
visits-you might neighborhood
If you don't visit a bad neighborhood, it might visit you.
mcdonalds designer
McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15.
faces research substitutes
There is no substitute for face-to-face reporting and research.
next-day bombers toys
You take one bomber and deploy him in Baghdad, and another is manufactured in Riyadh the next day. It's exactly like when you take the toy off the shelf at Wal-Mart and another is made in Shen Zhen the next day.
doctors matter stuff
No matter what your profession – doctor, lawyer, architect, accountant – if you are an American, you better be good at the touchy-feely service stuff, because anything that can be digitized can be outsourced to either the smartest or the cheapest producer.
als firsts terrorism
Saudi hijackers first came into contact with al-Qaeda and went through Terrorism 101 when they signed up for the jihad in Afghanistan.
challenges attention movement
So what am I? I guess I would call myself a sober optimist...If you are not sober about the scale of the challenge, then you are not paying attention. But if you are not an optimist, you have no chance of generating the kind of mass movement needed to achieve the needed scale.
towers london midnight
Ye towers of Julius, London's lasting shame, With many a foul and midnight murder fed.
atheist religion helping
There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief without the help of any other argument.