Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems as well as a partner in a couple venture capital firms was the keynote speaker at the Health Innovation Summit hosted by Rock Health in San Francisco. He said “health care is like witchcraft and just based on tradition.”
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Speaking at “Mobility Day” in Shanghai
Futurist Thomas Frey: Yesterday I had the privilege of speaking at a conference on the “Future of Mobility” in Shanghai, China. The event was produced by the very forward thinking people at Lanxess, a German-based chemical company that broke ground the day before on a new facility to expand its already significant base of operation in Shanghai.
Continue reading… “Driverless Highways: Creating Cars that Talk to the Roads”
Kickstarter is a crowdfunding site.
When it comes to getting your big idea funded by strangers size matters.
Three of the most populated metro areas in the U.S., New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, are the top three Kickstarter cities in America when it comes to total funds raised, according to data compiled by ThingsWeStart.com. Chicago, Austin, and Boston also make the top 10 list.
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A breakdown of our biggest losses as we approach health-care system reform.
The United States spends eight times as much money on unnecessary health-care costs, every year, as the Pentagon spent for each year of its operations in Iraq.
Continue reading… “The U.S. healthcare system wastes $750 billion each year”
Republicans and Democrats will agree on little during this years elections, including how to get the U.S. economy growing. Will it take higher taxes or smaller government to get the economy growing again? One path to growth that is widely agreed upon is technological innovation, which has historically been closely associated with the American venture-capital-backed startup company.
Continue reading… “The limitations of venture capital on true innovation”
Honduras
The Honduras government has signed a deal with private investors to create three privately run cities with their own legal and tax systems.
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BYD remote controlled car
All eyes have been on Google and it’s self-driving car prototype. But while that has been happening, a Chinese electric car maker BYD has released a vehicle that already drives itself, sometimes.
Continue reading… “You can own a self-driving car today for $10,000”
Monte die Paschi Bank
The Monte die Paschi Bank, tucked away in this Tuscan city, is the world’s oldest bank. It has survived the Borgias, pestilence and too many wars to count. Now, a mundane foe has proved far more dangerous: Italian government debt.
Continue reading… “Future of the world’s oldest bank uncertain”
Moving development to the cloud and offering the IDE as a service to developers, a significant amount of their workload has been removed.
The sentiment that software is taking over the world has become widely accepted throughout the tech community. Last year it was examined in depth by Marc Andreessen. However, as software continues to infiltrate nearly every industry, there’s a serious consequence taking shape. The demand for development continues to grow exponentially, but the amount of qualified developers that are available to produce this commodity is not. Simply put, the world is running out of developers.
Continue reading… “Solving the software developer shortage”
Where will qualified younger programmers come from when the older generation retires?
T’S a looming crisis not even dreamed of when computers were the new frontier, and all those working on them were young pioneers.
But fast-forward a few decades – and now experts warn that essential systems that control areas like defence and banking are about to be left without qualified people to run them, as the first generation of computer programmers retire and, sadly, die.
Seventy-two-year-old US digital forensic examiner, Robert E Johnston, said that the skills shortage in computer programming carried with it serious consequences…
Some Europeans will get access to the full complement of HBO content for a small fee.
According to Variety, in mid-October an HBO streaming service that does not require an associated cable subscription will be rolled out in Europe. It is confined to only a few European countries, but it’s an embrace from Time Warner to cord-cutters that non-HBO customers have long sought.
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DaVinci Institute, the futurist think tank based in Louisville, CO, celebrated its 15th Anniversary on Aug 9, 2012. As part of the celebration there was a ribbon cutting ceremony and an open house to show off its many accomplishments made over the years…
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