Think about all the products and services we use all the time. TVs, phones, computers, cars, cameras, fast-food restaurants, coffee shops. How have they changed over the past 10 years or more? A lot or a little? You’d probably say a lot. And you’d be right. Flat screen TVs that hang like picture frames, touchscreen phones that work like mini computers, actual computers that are smaller and more powerful than the ones that put man on the Moon, cars that run on a mixture of gasoline and electricity, and cameras the size of a fingernail to name several. [Read more…]
The Taxi Cab Cartel
Take a trip down memory lane and try to recall the last time you had a great experience in a taxi…and were sober. Maybe the seats were unusually comfortable and the interior impeccably clean. Perhaps you were offered a chilled bottle of water or provided a generous selection of reading material to pass the time. Maybe, a bad experience was turned into a great one–your driver got a little lost along the way, making you late to your destination, so he waived the charge and said “This one’s on me.” [Read more…]
