October 2009

Technology, Society, and a Smarter Planet

by Erik on October 12, 2009

in Education,history,Information,Technology

Over the past weekend, I was having lunch with a dear friend at a cafe in Hollywood, and we were joined by her non-profit business partner and another member of their US based team trying to accomplish a very awesome and noble feat, opening a school for an under served and poor town in rural [...]

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News Roundup

by Erik on October 5, 2009

in Advertising,Apple,Economy,IBM,Interesting,Technology

I.B.M. Joins Pursuit of $1,000 Personal Genome: One of the oldest names in computing is joining the race to sequence the genome for $1,000. On Tuesday, I.B.M. plans to give technical details of its effort to reach and surpass that goal, ultimately bringing the cost to as low as $100, making a personal genome cheaper [...]

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