Digital City Briefs: Digital Start-ups

The Start-up Pioneer of Silicon Valley

Bill Gates and Steve Jobs

2012-08-30T20:52:00.000-04:00

Memories Longer than the Road that Stretches Out Ahead.

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The Start-up Pioneer of Silicon Valley

2012-08-28T20:56:00.002-04:00

Stanford educated investor-entrepreneur-philanthropist-intellectual, Peter Thiel, is best known as the founder of PayPal and a hedge fund called Clarium Capital Management. Peter believes that the Unites States has lost its belief in the future, and he is doing everything in his power to steer it in the right direction.

He is pouring his ideas and passion into the Founders Fund, where he is cultivating creative start-ups with utopian ideas to change the world through technology. He draws a clear distinction between technology and globalization. “Technology involves the creation of radically new things that have not existed, and globalization maps to the continual copying of things that already exist.”

Reference: Packer, George, No Death, No Taxes, New Yorker, November 28, 2011

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A Digital Magazine for Social Media Contents

2012-08-25T09:59:00.000-04:00

“Beautifully designed for iPad and iPhone, Flipboard creates a personalized magazine out of everything being shared with you. Flip through your Facebook newsfeed and Google+ Circles, tweets from your Twitter timeline, photos from Instagram friends, videos from YouTube, and much more.”

Reference: Flipboard: Your Social News Magazine, By Flipboard Inc.

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Solar Tile Combines PV Panel with Storage Battery

2012-08-22T06:38:00.001-04:00

Researchers at the Amrita Center for Nanoscience and Molecular Medicine in Kochi, India have developed a mobile power unit that combines a super-capacitor with photovoltaic panels. While the prototype is bulky and crude, they promise to develop a thinner and flexible solar tile with improved storage capacity.

“After just four hours in the sun the Amrita Smart solar tile holds enough power to charge laptops and mobile phones in as little as two hours, and can store the energy for up to seven days if not immediately required.”

Reference and photo credit: Burgess, James, Indian Company Combines a PV Solar Panel with a Storage Device for Mobile Power, May 10, 2012

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A Daylight Window of the Future

The Future of Glass and Digital Connectivity

Ray Kurzweil – Exponential Learning & Entrepreneurship

2012-08-20T06:22:00.000-04:00

Ray Kurzweil is an MIT educated American futurist, who is known for his innovations in the fields of optical character recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. Here is an excerpt from the Learning Without Frontiers Conference held in London in January 2012. http://www.learningwithoutfrontiers.com

"His main prescriptions are for more project-based learning, led by the students' passions and interests, and for the incorporation of computers as 'amplifiers' of human thinking in the classroom."

Reference: John Speller, Ray Kurzweil – Exponential Learning & Entrepreneurship, May 19, 2012

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A Daylight Window of the Future

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Steve Jobs' Start-up Mindset

2012-08-20T06:08:00.000-04:00

Steve Job’s biography reads like a movie script. A modest background. A supreme genius that dazzles millions of people by making computing fun and user friendly. A difficult personality that got him fired from the company he founded. And then a come back, and a return to Apple Inc., to turn it into a multi-billion dollars company and a household name.

In this video, Steve outlines his vision in response to a question, in front of a group of people at Apple, Inc.

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