Monday’s Musings: Reflections On Obama And The False Hope For A Tech Halo
President Obama’s Visit Reflects The Importance Of Silicon Valley To The US Economy By now everyone’s seen and re-seen the photo showing the tech-centric dinner at John Doerr’s house in Woodside, CA on February 17th, 2011 (see Figure 1). With a guest list that included most of the “Captains of the Tech Industry” it would [...]
Silicon Valley’s Defining Characteristics
In the process of preparing for my speech for the inauguration of the Alexandrian Innovation Zone, I had to think about Silicon Valley, its history, its defining characteristics and which of these characteristics are “exportable.” Starting with a bit of history (you can find a lot more detailed historical accounting in Steve Blank’s blog), Silicon [...]
Costs of running communication networks about to tumble?
Photo credit IronRodArt I saw a report on the Green Data Center Blog today that a new industry group called GreenTouch has been formed with the express aim of reducing the amount of energy communications networks (including the Internet) use. In fact their Global Mission is to, by 2015: deliver the architecture, specifications and roadmap [...]
