This was before the days of my development of computer algorithms to analyze the tick data in real time to alert me.

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If I can give just one example, as the manager of a computer department, it was essential that my staff were housed in two separate enclosed areas - one for the data preparation and computer operations staff where noise was inevitable, and the second for the systems and programming staff who needed a quiet environment in which to concentrate and create.

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"Maybe my data should be centralized on a server where I can simply access it from any computer with a browser, " says Jerry Michalski, former editor of Esther Dyson's "Release 1.0" newsletter, who recently started a company called Sociate.

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