Everyone wants healthcare that is better, more personal, useful, effective, and cheaper. The key to conquering these conflicting objectives: technology. Fortunately, we sit on the cusp of the biggest medical tech revolution in human history. But as every sentient citizen knows, the epicenter of action in this arena has just moved from the innovators and entrepreneurs…
China is likely to emerge as world’s best cloud computing infrastructure… [the] Chinese government has cited cloud computing as a Strategic Emerging Industry.
EnergyFactsWeekly — The Cloud Begins With Coal Facebook’s new 300,000 square-foot data center, now operating in Forest City, North Carolina, took 16 months and 1.2 million labor-hours of construction, and …. This Facebook facility will require electricity from about one million tons of coal over the next decade
You want a vision for the future of health care? Don’t look to policymakers and regulators. Look to innovators and innovations. Look to San Diego’s wireless mesas and San Francisco’s silicon valleys. Look at Scanadu’s protean medical Tricorder. They get it, and it’s awesome. Watch their one-and-a-half-minute video before reading on. Scanadu’s vision embraces patient-centric healthcare as a personal information service,…
EnergyFactsWeekly — The Cloud Begins With Coal We know three things about transistors: They have already changed the world: Silicon technology progress is not over, and vast domains of untapped social and economic opportunity remain: Every single transistor consumes electricity. And we know two other related facts: The energy cost of computation has collapsed, but the overall amount of…
In 1980, no one – no one – anticipated what Apple would become. That era was dominated by Central Computing. No one foresaw the revolution Distributed Computing would unleash. Hundreds of new companies emerged, many old ones evaporated, and millions of new jobs were created in an employment tsunami that transformed American businesses for the next two…
