Airlines have become like buses in the sky, and the availability of air travel is an operating assumption of business and families. With security probes, x-rays, long queues, lost baggage, re-routed planes and an unpleasant taxi journey airport -- airline travel is anything but pleasant. Partly this loss of glamour is due to the inevitable move from expensive elite experience to mass transit air-bus.
For French speakers and Francophiles, here's a recent French language interview I did with with Elsa Sidawy regarding Innovation Cities™ published in Paris.
Budapest is an exciting, dynamic city with as analyst the right youth labour mix, and geographic position to succeed further economically and socially.
Here's some slides on my segment from the public sphere for Senator Lundy, August 2009.
IBM Smart Planet article on the Innovation Cities Index -- my benchmarking work for 2thinknow. I rather liked the article by Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca.