Good News: $1.2B venture fund announced, more to follow on Silicon Valley

[Miha Ahronovitz]

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/silicon-valley-firm-raises-big-fund-for-deals/?dlbk&emc=dlbk
Huge by today standards, it brings hope.

Miha

[Ray DePena]

Another blurb from the NYTimes

"The American economy needs to break out of the cycle of consumption and debt, and regain its focus on innovation and exports, Brooks writes, calling for policies on education and technology to be unified into "a single, long-term narrative" with a focus on regional innovation."

-RD

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[Rao Dronamraju]

 

Ray,

 

Remember your post/concerns about IT coming to an end with CC.

Here are couple of articles about where we are headed beyond IT.

I find these application of computing lot more interesting and innovative than traditional IT stuff anyway.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/science/17prof.html

 

http://tinyurl.com/yhqf755

 

Regards,

Rao

 

 

[scottxu]

Looks this fund invests mainly on mature projects. Don't know if there
are some investors who are willing to invest on really early ideas.

Education with simulations could be an ongoing effort forever. It also
asks for resources when growing with complexity. People could start
with simples, say for elementary school students first, then for
middle schools, and hopefully can
develop into college level systems.

I write down my ideas as follows. Don't know if it makes sense.


Scott

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What Could An Educational Persistent World Provide ?

Nothing can replace the face-to-face teaching, communications,
fellowship, and outdoor activities, etc., in schools.

However computers could help in certain ways. They already help people
to:
1) process logics (or computation) efficiently
2) provide simulations

Human beings develop intelligence and logics with their biologic
systems and neural networks. Many times they feel difficult to
understand concepts and abstractions. Could some viusal simulation
with more details helps ? Computers could provide enormous content
which schools don't have time to cover. And students can pick up the
parts which are easy to understand for them.

When kids can not follow the steps or feel frustrated after too many
denials, the persisent world could help them to learn knowledges from
various areas, so they can try new interests, figure out their
strength, and possibly find a
developing track good for them, and maybe some friends they can work
togather.

There is almost no entry barrier in the persistent world. Kids can
learn at their own speed. They will not be out of the game there, and
they can learn how to work with the progress-contribution-reward
system. Kids sometimes need rewards to go further.

For those who already do very well in schools, they can explore
knowledges in much more width and depth in the persistent world. They
can learn to organize and manage tasks, and watch, understand, and
work with different types of people.




On Nov 19, 1:08 pm, "Rao Dronamraju" <rao.dronamr...@sbcglobal.net>
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[Ray DePena]

Thanks Rao,

It's not IT coming to an end, but rather IT as we know it (traditional IT).  No doubt IT will always have a bright future, though people working in IT may have a different experience.

It's not that these IT applications are not interesting.  I just wonder whether such applications will be able to replace the jobs lost.  Today, millions of people work in IT, with ever increasing IT developments, I see less traditional IT demand (at least in the U.S.) and ever increasing specialization (bioinformatics, etc.) that require education and training beyond IT.

-RD

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[Rick Hebly]

Unless cloud computing is the container - or rather the trachcan - of any technology beyond the current status of IT, I would say this interesting technology does not qualify for this group, or call it Group of any future computing related stuff. It doesn't make the subject any less interesting by the way

2009/11/22 Ray DePena <ray.d...@gmail.com>

[Rao Dronamraju]

“Unless cloud computing is the container - or rather the trachcan - of any technology beyond the current status of IT, I would say this interesting technology does not qualify for this group”

 

I totally disagree. The technologies are very much related to cloud computing. Especially HP’s planet wide sensor networks is a prime candidate for real-time massive analytics to be run in the clouds. So next time you make a judgement as to something belongs in the group, please pose it as a question not as a statement. In addition, there is some context that is associated with this line/thread of discussion. There were concerns in the group about (vanishing) IT jobs due to CC. We are exploring other possibilities related to & beyond CC to alleviate the concerns in the group.

 

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