Silicon Valley Musings

Silicon Rally ? April 19, 2004
Terse due to low laptop battery
The most interesting person (aside from Dr. Engelbart) was Mora Mclean, Africa America Institute http://www.aaionline.org.
Gapminder, Ola Rosling
Open source data series visualization
Uses to visual two variables. Examples: Money vs Heath
Animated. Using Director, moving to Flash
Using the WHO and UN’s data sets. Currently for sale, but is […]

The fellows have reviewed all of the existing projects and are convinced they are worthwhile. Please explain why you feel yours will be successful moving forward.
Over the next twelve months:
What are your project goals?
How will you measure your success in meeting these goals, that is how will
you quantify success?
What do you see as the major […]

Draft Outline - Initial thoughts
A New Spirit of Harmony - One Planet, Many Voices.
Goal: By 2020, every person on the planet would have a cell phone (geek
speek IP dial-tone).
Why cell phones instead of footprints on Mars?
- As technologically challenging as mission to Mars
- More likely to have short and […]