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Andy Grove on Web 2.0 and the Valley: Slackers
- echair 18y agoYou kids get off my lawn!
- alaskamiller 18y agoGo make better batteries!
- pedalpete 18y ago'the U.S. ceded the market for computer batteries to Japan in the 1970s. Now it's way behind in the race to invent improved batteries for electric vehicles' Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't A123 Systems a leader in this field?
- ejs 18y agoYea they are, don't know what this guy is thinking... maybe he doesn't count companies on the east coast?
- fallentimes 18y agoThis sentence made me laugh out loud: "These Web 2.0 companies are surfing on the old wave. They're not creating the next one," says analyst Navi Radjou of Forrester Research I'm not old enough to know either way, but I wonder if attitudes are always similar to this during a recession.
- ojbyrne 18y agoI had some good laughs at the linked article, which had some "insights" on my favorite whipping boy, digg. Quoting Kevin Rose, - '"Things change in the shower in the morning," he says.' Business week seems generally shoddy to me. This article seems a classic example - throw some random punditry together (aim for big, publicly identifiable names though settle for companies with big PR budgets) that's semi-relevant to current news, add some overdramatic narrative, and don't forget the obligatory call for new tax incentives to further advance innovation. It's a big mishmash of junk. Watch out for the auto-starting video that further proves my point.
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- davidw 18y agoThere has always been a "get rich quick" vein to the Bay Area, ever since the gold rush. I think that's one of the reasons that it's not the most pleasant place to live. When everyone's thinking "ok, get in, make money, get out", no one's thinking much about stuff like schools, parks, infrastructure.
- pg 18y agoSilicon Valley has problems, but schools, parks, and infrastructure are not among them. In these it is among the best in the US.
- ivankirigin 18y agoI see some patterns in different tech areas. SF, downtown Boston/Cambridge, and NYC all have pretty bad public schools, some nice parks, and at times annoyingly crowded but workable roads. Palo Alto, Arlington and points north, and Long Island each have better schools, more open spaces, and less congestion. This clearly has a lot less to do with startup centers and more a generally to do with population density in and around urban areas.
- davidw 18y agoI guess I'm a bit biased - I moved there the first time from Portland, Oregon, which at least in terms of parks and infrastructure, is definitely better. Where are you getting the school information from?
- pg 18y agohttp://www.openspace.org/ http://www.openspace.org/ http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/csd/parks_and_open_space/default.asp http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/csd/parks_and_open_space... http://www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/depts/utl/default.asp http://www.city.palo-alto.ca.us/depts/utl/default.asp http://www.schooldatadirect.org/app/location/q/stid=5/llid=118/stllid=319/locid=1006325/stype=/catid=-1/secid=-1/compid=-1/site=pes http://www.schooldatadirect.org/app/location/q/stid=5/llid=1...