The Consumer Effect In Beantown

The Consumer Effect In Beantown... Shaygan Kheradpir, Verizon's IT chief, told a presymposium dinner crowd that IT has made manifest what Winston Churchill famously referred to as "empires of the mind." ("The empires of the future are the empires of the mind," is the quote attributed to Churchill.)  As an example, Kheradpir referred to Shawn Fanning, who wrote Napster, the infamous file-sharing site, while he was a student at Northeastern in Boston.  Kheradpir says he remembers thinking, when he first became aware of Napster, "this is the end of media as we know it." Napster was Fanning's "empire of the mind," and it "moved media," Kheradpir pointed out. Click here for the entire article...