What Will it Take for Europe to Wake Up One Day
(B) Europeans enjoy some of the best social programs in the world, from the highest number of paid vacation days, the shortest number of hours worked per week, early retirements, […]
Getting the Salt Out of Seawater at the Same Price as Fresh Water from the Ground
(T) One of the most critical resources for life is water. Without drinking water, there is no survival. Without water for crops, there is no food. Without water for the […]
Superb Performance of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3 by Hotaik Sung and the Stanford Symphony Orchestra
(E) If there is a piano concerto that every pianist dreams to play (especially me), it is, without a doubt, the Third Piano Concerto from Sergei Rachmaninoff (often named Rach […]
Carlos Ghosn on Zero Emission Cars
(B) Carlos Ghosn, Chairman and CEO of Renault and Nissan, came to Silicon Valley earlier this year at the Churchill Club to share his views on the future of electric cars. I was […]
The Public Debts of the Developed Nations Could Well Lead to the Next Financial Crisis
(B) For the present academic year, some of the staff and faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, one of the most prestigious universities of the US, are on […]
Our Journey to a Sustainable Economic Development for 2010 and Beyond
(B) If every citizen, of every country on our planet, were to consume like an American citizen today, the world would need 5.4 Earths to sustain us! It takes today […]
Apollo Sun Silicon Graphics and NeXt the Ascent the Metamorphose and the Fall
(T) I will always remember the Monday morning in 1989 when I was “Up in the Air” traveling from Paris to London with my general manager and learning from the […]
Haiti Afghanistan and Darfur Why We Must Eradicate Global Poverty
(E) Watching the painful images of human losses from the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I cannot stop imagining how San Francisco will look like after the next big “ONE” […]
Please Donate to the Haiti Earthquake Rescue Efforts
(E) Please donate to support the worldwide earthquake rescue efforts in Haiti. The human suffering from the January 12, 7.0 earthquake is beyond what we have ever seen! More than […]
The Road to an Unsustainable Economic Development for 2010 and Beyond
(B) Rising world population, ever growing demands of goods and services, destruction of the earth ecosystems and resources and climate change are the four major challenges for our global human […]
Copenhagen Must Put the Planet on a Path to a Decarbonized Economy
(E) Continuing the path to an ever-expanding carbonized economy is taking the risk that global society will not flourish anymore. We all know that. The world’s current ecological developments are […]
Pre Copenhagen Climate Change for Dummies
(E) Since the start of the industrial revolution in the 1820s, human combustion of fossil fuels and destruction of forests have increased the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the […]
The Road Map to the Smart Power Grid from EPRI
(T) Is the Smart Power Grid “reality” or “hype”? There are definitely a number of inflated expectations about what is presently the Smart Grid, why do we need it or […]
The Sun Our Future Energy Source
(T) We have many non-fossil alternative energy available to use today. If you consider all of them, the list is pretty long and include at least solar, wind, nuclear, hydroelectricity, […]
We Will be Running Out of Oil Soon
(B) We will run out of oil in a few decades. The total world oil production probably peaked in 2008 and will be dropping in the decades ahead. With a […]
How Much Energy Do we Need?
(B) Our body needs to get from our meals 2,000 calories per day or the equivalent of a 100 watts light bulb. In our day-to-day life, every one of us needs […]
The Re Naissance of the San Francisco Opera
(E) With the new music director Nicola Luisotti, the San Francisco Opera has already regained some new excitement, energy, and passion. Even with the cold fog over the AT&T Ball […]
Good Green Tech Readings
(T) While I wrote on that blog that I would like to see more from both Stanford and UC Berkeley as the engines of knowledge in Green-Tech for Silicon Valley, […]
The Challenges Ahead for Microsoft to Sustain its Growth
(T) I do not share the views of many analysts in Wall Street that, even after a terrible Q4 earnings report, are still optimistic about the future of Microsoft. Their […]
Starent Aruba and Riverbed: the New Competitors to Cisco Systems
(T) The Mobile Internet is mostly driven by the new generation of mobile devices, faster wireless networks and all the new Web services that we are using every day. There […]
Can Mobility Drive the NASDAQ to a New Bull Market?
(B) This week on CBNC, our hyper-energetic investor guru Jim Cramer made on his show Mad Money a wild prediction: the 12 day winning days that the Nasdaq had until it came to an […]
Can Silicon Valley Reinvent Itself in Green-Tech?
(T) Every year, around the month of February, I am looking forward to attending some of the events at the Entrepreneurship Week at Stanford University. Entrepreneurship Week gives an opportunity for the […]
Too Big to Fail
(B) Are Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, General Motors, California, the US Federal Government or the G-7 nations Too Big to Fail (TBTF)? Oops, it looks like the list of […]
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