Changing the World One Kid at a Time With the Help of Virtual Reality: A Look Inside an ambitious Stanford Startup for Education Is there any topic hotter than virtual reality in Silicon Valley right now? HBO’s Silicon Valley has…
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The Silicon Valley Future: 2017 as seen from 1997
This forecast for 2017 was written almost 20 years ago. ******************* ************************ Linguistically Speaking and Love on the Left Bank Imagine the future. Imagine that what you think is real is only your limitations of the ability to recognize…
This is an open letter to all the men who tell me, “I will never drive an autonomous vehicle. I will never give up control.” This is also for the men who are sure they will be dead before…
Virtual, Disruptive and Integrative: Virtual Reality in the Classroom
Nathan Kong at Stanford Update, May 2017 : Read what this startup is up to including a summer hacker house and get a free VR App from DIVR. Immunity Defender is free for now – Check out how to be…
Forget Facebook and Instagram: You Will Be Known By Your Bacteria: I am my microbiome. You can have Snapchat, Instagram and Facebook to explain yourself and present a vision/version of yourself and you probably do. Here we are in…
The transformation of the distribution of medicine to where it is needed has arrived. We’ve long had on demand cars (thank you Uber) and on demand rooms at reasonable rates (thank you AirBnB) and on demand consumer genetic testing…
REMEMBERING RUSTY Love from Ann ==== MAKE FULL SCREEN=== Silicon Valley is a very big story from apricots to autonomous vehicles to augmented reality and artificial intelligence. It’s exciting and transformative. It is overwhelming and fabulous. It’s sad…
The Palo Alto Daily is reporting (November, 2015) that a petition is being circulated in Palo Alto to re-name Jordan Junior High which is named after former Stanford University President, David Starr Jordan. Jordan was into the then early field…
I recently went to hear Elizabeth Holmes in person speaking in Santa Clara. She’s Theranos’ founder and CEO and a media darling. I loved the focus and single mindedness that shined through her story of knowing since childhood there…
BEAM STORE, Palo Alto, California A couple walks by the storefront, does a double take and stands transfixed staring at what looks like a computer screen on legs having a conversation on the sidewalk with some people. Curious they…