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- Paul Saffo: Hear from the seer of Silicon Valley
- In a Super Techies interview, technology forecaster Paul Saffo talks to ZDNet Editor in Chief Dan Farber about his philosophy on predicting future technology trends. Saffo discusses how he got started in the forecasting game and his biggest hits and misses. Also, find out which technology he believes will be...
- Videos 2007-12-12
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- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO
- 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOHow about John McCain?:-)RE: 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOPersonally, I think Gates would be the best choice. He is a visionary. Had his vision years ago, managed to podge together ideas and technology from other sources, and create the Windows empire.The only...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-10
- Fixing McCain's techno-ignorance
- The New York Times' Mark Leibovich takes note of the tittering twitters over John McCain's recent admission that he's not exactly tech-savvy. "Not only did John McCain not invent the Internet, he can barely use it," he sniggers. McCain's argument, as Cynthia Brumfield summarizes, is that as...
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
- News to know: Apple patches; Windows Mobile 7, 8; Adobe; Green tech
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Apple delivers hefty patch haul; Addresses Leopard flaws and Safari David Morgenstern: Are Mac users more honest than Windows users? Treating Leopard's Finder not-fully-loading bug WSJ: Apple meets with DoCoMo, Softbank over iPhone in Japan. ...
- Blog posts 2007-12-18
- Paul Saffo: The Seer of Silicon Valley
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- Discussion threads 2007-12-17
- Paul Saffo: The Seer of Silicon Valley
- In a Super Techies interview, technology forecaster Paul Saffo explains his technique for predicting future technology trends. He also discusses how he got started in the forecasting game and shares his biggest hits and misses. Paul predicted that next big thing to come out of nowhere and astonish consumers will...
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Silicon Valley, green tech and the mystery of it all
- There's another attempt by an observer to capture the essence, the source, of Silicon Valley's success at chruning out new, and sometimes successful ideas. his one happens to be from an East Coast newspaper. Bemused but impressed is the usual attitude of those who live outside the halo...
- Blog posts 2007-10-26
- World Digital Library to offer the world's cultures online
- Two years ago, James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress, proposed a global digital library. The vision may be realized over the coming years, The Washington Post reports. The World Digital Library -- comprised of international librarians, computer scientists and U.N. officials -- unveiled a prototype for the project ...
- Blog posts 2007-10-19
- Singularity Summit 2007: Machines of loving grace
- Futurist/historian of science Paul Saffo gave the final presentation of the day at the Singularity Summit 2007, offering his advice to the crowd of 800 attendees. "We are in a moment of handoff. It happens in all technology transitions. The inventors, scientists and innovators hand off to popular culture."...
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Time of the tech-no: A growing minority of teens are decidedly unwired
- In this wired world, one would have to look hard to find a student who doesnt take advantage of the Internet on some level, but they are out there, reports USA Today. Call them tech-nos. They are shunning the very thing that most students are embracing with a...
- Blog posts 2007-01-24
- Leading Silicon Valley thinker warns of problems
- It was a very dull 60th anniversary celebration for SRI International, one of the worlds largest contract research institutes. Spun out of Stanford University, it lives in the heart of Silicon Valley and started a long time before there was a Silicon Valley. It has contributed a massive amount of...
- Blog posts 2006-11-07
- Dr. James Watson reflects on DNA research in the 21st century
- One of the highlights of AMD’s Global Vision Conference was an interview Paul Saffo conducted with Dr. James Watson, who along with Francis Crick discovered the structure of DNA more than fifty years ago. In this new century, the full fruit of the Watson-Crick discovery is being unleashed in a...
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Latest update on Negroponte's $100 laptop
- After by master of ceremonies, futurist Paul Saffo, noted that I was blogging at the AMD Global Vision Conference--to ensure that speakers didn’t say anything too controversial--Nicholas Negroponte took the stage to evangelize his One Laptop per Child non-profit, which got its first seed funding from AMD and the laptop...
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- Lance Armstrong leads off AMD's Global Vision Conference
- This week I am attending AMD’s Global Vision Conference at the posh Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, near Los Angeles. The agenda is focused on innovations and global impacts, and features a diversity of speakers, including DNA co-discoverer James Watson, Dreamworks’ mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, Wal-Mart CMO John Fleming, Sun chief scientist John...
- Blog posts 2006-09-19
- The great Singularity debate
- Saturday morning at the Singularity Summit at Stanford University. All 12 panelists for the day are seated in order of their scheduled presentations, with an audience of at least a thousand seated in the Memorial Auditorium on campus. Very orderly and probably not very comfortable for the panelists who don't...
- Blog posts 2006-05-13
- Paul Saffo on Cyberbia and the future
- Worth reading: My local paper, the San Francisco Chronicle, interviewed Paul Saffo, one of the brightest lights envisioning future scenarios. Here are a few choice quotes from the interview: So far, at least, the technology is not autonomous to be in charge. That will be the worry for people 20...
- Blog posts 2006-02-19
- Is technology making us safer?
- "Is Technology Making Us Safer" was the most entertaining and bleak panel at the AO2005 Summit. Paul Saffo, Director and Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future, moderated the event, refereeing exchanges among the curmongeonly George Gilder, author and editor of the Gilder Technology Report; a rather joyless...
- Blog posts 2005-07-22
- Views from the smartest people in Sun's orbit
- A JavaOne panel with some of the smartest people orbiting Sun provided some insight into where Java, porgramming models, Google and man-machine relationships are heading. Guy Steele, a Sun Fellow and a key participant in Java's creation, talked about his latest language project, Fortress, which he described as "doing for...
- Blog posts 2005-06-30
- The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?
- On May 17th, the Churchill Club held a panel discussion, "The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary?" Paul Saffo, director and Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future click here for my audio interview with Paul prior to the event, was the...
- Blog posts 2005-05-19
- Futurist Paul Saffo: The new personal media order
- Prior to the Churchill Club event, "The Next Wave of Technology: Iterative or Incendiary? ," I spoke with panel moderator Paul Saffo, who is director and Roy Amara Fellow at the Institute for the Future. In the audio interview (which is available as an MP3 that can be...
- Blog posts 2005-05-19
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