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About Eleanor Kruszewski: I'm known variously as Eleanor or Elle. My last name is like that coach from Duke - kru-shef-ski.

Based in Menlo Park, CA, I work for Yahoo! in their Developer Network. The easiest description of what I do is the MBA shin kicker, handling community, marketing, commercial programs and sundry backend stuff.

Disclaimer: I've done big corps, midcorps, and startups, so I overstate and oversimplify as much as anyone else. These opinions are my own, not my employer's.

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An Economic Analysis Model from Brad DeLong

Economist Brad DeLong posted a blog entry, slide-off-the-tonguily titled, A Framework for the Economic Analysis of Technological Revolutions, with an Application to Nanotechnology.
To get past the daunting title, we’ll break it down. He simply aims 4 questions at nanotech, with an eye to understanding the already-apparent effects of the technology change, as well as to speculate up on its future impact.
His 4 questions are: What becomes cheaper?, What bottlenecks or scarcities (human or material, in my view) emerge?. The last two are related to risk and form two sides of the same coin: “What risks blindside the society as the technology spreads?, What risks do people guard against that turn out not to be risks at all?”
Interesting piece all in all, but I think the greatest value is in this framework.

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