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                    [Title] => Future-proofing your organizations
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There is a very important question that constantly plagues the minds of responsible business executives. It is a question that, as considered by many, a crucial one.

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It started off just like any other day.

[DatePublished] => 2010-09-19 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133579 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1804862 [AuthorName] => Igan D’Bayan [SectionName] => Gadgets [SectionUrl] => gadgets [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 398805 [Title] => Ode to the Walkman [Summary] =>

As children we are all hostage to our parents’ tastes in music. In my house this meant Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra, Frank Sinatra. And other vocalists who tried to sound like... Frank Sinatra. Years later I was in a taxi stuck in traffic when Strangers In The Night started playing on the radio, and I realized that I knew all the lyrics to the song. The words had been uploaded to my memory through some kind of early auditory WiFi. I know the words to many Sinatra songs, including My Way, which has a high body count in Manila’s karaoke joints. Apparently the singers will only relinquish the microphone upon pain of death. Someone pointed out that there was a morbid symmetry to this, the first words of that song being, “And now, the end is near…”

[DatePublished] => 2008-09-07 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 134078 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1389712 [AuthorName] => Jessica Zafra [SectionName] => Sunday Lifestyle [SectionUrl] => sunday-life [URL] => ) ) )
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