THE GREAT INFLECTION

NYT--In case you haven’t noticed, the U.S. economy today is actually being hit by two tsunamis at once: The Great Recession and the Great Inflection.

The Great Inflection is the mass diffusion of low-cost, high-powered innovation technologies — from hand-held computers to Web sites that offer any imaginable service — plus cheap connectivity. They are transforming how business is done. The Great Recession you know.

WB7: What exactly is the Great Inflection? It is yet another tired Thomas Friedmanism to explain why and how the American Dream has rapidly become a great big dinosaur ready for extinction. Here is how the Great Inflection works:

Take all words ending with "tion" and tie them into a tongue twisting explanation of America's great demise. Try it, its not as hard as you think.

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