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Nanotech Roadmap

Guy Kawasaki's blog provides a link to the Battelle Memorial Foundation report: Productive Nanosystems - a Technology Roadmap.  If you'd like a thorough overview of nanotech, this is it!

Silicon Valley Strong in Spite of Globabalization

A recent San Jose Mercury News article argues that in a "flat world", Silicon Valley still rein supreme in technology.

The same high-tech tools that radically diminished the significance of location and distance have, ironically, enhanced the valley's position as a test lab and marketplace for innovation and industry, say many executives, entrepreneurs, economists and scholars.

Tech Bubbles have Value

Dean Takahashi with the San Jose Mercury News argued in a recent article that  tech bubbles aren't all bad:

... without an inflated belief in the future, entrepreneurs wouldn't take crazy risks. Little companies like John Welch's PlayFirst casual-video-game company were starved for cash in 2003. But Welch scraped together a team, raised a small round of venture money, created a publishing company for simple, arcade-like games that entertained people who didn't have a ton of time to play hard-core games - and thus contributed to the valley's recovery.

One-Laptop-per-Child Innovations

A recent New York Times article described some of the innovations in the low-cost laptops, including "mesh" networking (with Internet-connection sharing through the mesh) and very low power (with solar and "yo-yo like pull-cord charger)