Intangible Assets

Steven Guccione

Screenshot from 2017-12-07 16-12-04An article by the Business School folks at Imperial College.  In the past, wealth meant owning ‘tangible assets’.  Gold, land, cattle.  There have always been other, less tangible assets, like ‘intellectual property’, but these were usually part of a larger tangible asset arrangements (a company’s patent portfolio protecting its manufacturing, for instance).  What does it mean when the value of these intangible assets becomes large in proportion to other assets?  I am not sure.

We need to change the way we look at the economy, says Imperial professor

Computing, 1982

Steven Guccione

I found a folder full of old clippings and things I would pin up on my office walls, back in the Old Days.  Dobbsheads, Zippy the Pinhead cartoons, early computer graphics images, Jack Handy’s Deep Thoughts, stuff like that.  One quote that I ran across that is just as interesting today:

“Technology used to be scary; computers used to be seen as cold, emotionless.  Now people are realizing there’s flesh and blood in computers, and excitement and thrills, and room for all things that are human”

Jerry Garcia, 1982

 

List of United States university campuses by enrollment

Steven Guccione

It was only a few years ago that 50k was a big school.  From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_university_campuses_by_enrollment

Ten largest public university campuses by enrollment during the 2015–16 academic year
Ranking University Location Enrollment Reference(s)
1 University of Central Florida Orlando, Florida 63,016 [11]
2 Ohio State University [note 2] Columbus, Ohio 58,663 [12]
3 Texas A&M University College Station, Texas 58,515 [13]
4 Florida International University Miami, Florida 54,058 [14]
5 University of Florida Gainesville, Florida 52,518 [15]
6 Arizona State University [note 1] Tempe, Arizona 51,984 [16]
7 University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas 50,950 [17]
8 University of Minnesota Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota 50,678 [18]
9 Michigan State University East Lansing, Michigan 50,543 [19]
10 Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 48,514 [20]