To the Entrepreneur, the present-day world is modeled after a vision of a better way, one that will stand out with customers from all the rest in the past, and give the joy and satisfaction of success.

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In a recent conversation, Ali Riaz, CEO of Attivio, explained a vision for Unified Information Access that provides one way to optimize the cycle in a way that seems quite compelling and widely applicable.

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What Hastings should really get credit for, though, is the diligence with which he prepared the way for his vision and that method is one that others can emulate.

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Either way, the impact on their vision is so similar that it's considered one disorder, red-green colorblindness, which is the most common single-gene disorder in humans, affecting 1 in 8 men and 1 in 230 women of Northern European descent world-wide (and slightly fewer in other racial groups).

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