Well known, loved and respected actor John Heard died in Palo Alto on Friday after back surgery at Stanford. So let’s talk Stanford Hospital because Stanford is a major part of the Silicon Valley story. And the Medical…
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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…
Education General Stanford Start Ups VR/AR
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…
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…
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…
I’m ready. Have Traveling Pepper and I will write to you. I will thank you, invite you, love you, want you, send good wishes, say hello and good-bye and anything in-between. Yes, that’s how much I like it. But it goes…
A Webby for Health Crap? Yep. Just because the info is online and the delivery system is not what you are used to doesn’t make it award worthy. Health Tap is mediocre. Don’t call it a game changer –…
Diversity problem in Silicon Valley? Big time. I was going to write about something else but when I opened this email for a new meet-up: http://www.meetup.com/WHITE-STARTUP-INVESTORS-AND-FOUNDERS/ and my jaw dropped, and my brain went to the news today…
This is a walk down Memory Lane. As the Varsity is about to rebirth as a co-sharing work and coffee bar, let us remember all the good things the building has given us, bookstore, yes, but especially the bar,…
As I took the pic, a homeless woman asked me: is someone spending the night here? What followed was a great conversation and here’s a shout out to Annette on University Ave and her one year of sobriety after…