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carl icahn twitter apple
Voices

Deconstructing Carl: A Primer on Icahn/Apple Activism

Having purchased $500 million more $AAPL shares in the last two weeks, our investment has crossed the $3 billion mark yesterday. — Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) January 22, 2014   Guest Blog post  from  Rotary Gallop on that  intriguing man who…

Big Tech Futurism Tech and Ecology Voices

Google, You Own Me

2019 Update:   5 years later and  “more true” than when originally written if that can be correctly said. Add Facebook, add Apple watch, AR/VR , gene edited  babies and we see we are owned not just by Google but…

Ray Kurzweil, singularity, AI
General

HER is Here, A.Mac Was First

Transhumanism, the singularity – supposedly in HER. Ok, sort of, but too riddled with cliches for our liking. We did like the evolutionary aspect of the OS and the hint of possibility of a future intelligence a la Kurzweil.…

Moore's Law is Dead
Big Tech General Voices

Moore’s Law: Color It Gone

Written by Radhika Dirks, Ph.D. Chief Operating Officer, Rotary Gallop Moore’s law has become a sort of mystical talisman in the computing industry. Every few months there is a new round of articles arguing about whether and when Moore’s…

designing drones
Big Tech Start Ups

Designing Drones: Designer Needed

I love the concept of designing drones. I met the co-founder of Matternet, Paola Santana, and liked her and her company. So, here’s more – a posting from my original time sink, Craigslist. A stealth mode company needs a…

Start Ups Voices

Disruptive Tech Creates Backlash

Matt Mickiewicz’s life is a series of destructive events. How long ago would that have represented the history of a psychopathic criminal? Today, it is the heart and soul of pitches to VC’s and angels and crowdfunding events. Matt…

thesiliconvalleystorycom looks at cell phone dangers
General Government & Technology

Cell Phones and Brain Tumors

The scientists are strongly behind this one now. It wasn’t always so. But people don’t seem to care..too much. The Federal Communications Commission announced this year it would review its maximum Specific Absorption Rate for cell phones. SAR is a measure…

General

Downtown Palo Alto

Palo Alto’s newest resident welcomes you at S. Graf on Hamilton and Digital DNA awaits you in Lytton Plaza on University at  Emerson.…

Vortis and The Silicon Valley Story
Start Ups

A Cell Phone, A Problem and a Journey: Vortis

Joseph Campbell is relevant anywhere. Let’s bring him into Silicon Valley with these words of his: “The usual hero adventure begins with someone from whom something has been taken, or who feels there is something lacking in the normal…