It is a matter of record that many of the most powerful entrepreneurs and VCs of Silicon Valley espouse a distinctly libertarian point of view tinged with shades of Ayn Rand, or at least a half-assed reading of her works. And this confluence should not be overlooked, if for no other reason than, at least for the moment, what feels ...
I spend a lot of time thinking about the future, about the challenges and the opportunities facing the next generation — those millennials about whom everyone has a theory and whose attention everybody wants. They are, after all, the next big generation, equalling the boomers at about eighty million with us Xers weighing in at a paltry fifty million. But ...
If Disney built a miniature version of one of its theme parks in the middle of Washington D.C. and populated it with lobbyists and government affairs specialists, people would go berserk. And rightly so. But will there be any public reaction be to the new 54,000 square-foot fun zone Google,Inc. officially opened on July 15 with a grand party attended ...
In case you missed it, OWS co-founder, now Google software engineer, Justine Tunney is responsible for a petition calling for a coup d’etat that would hand over administrative authority of the United States to the tech industry and appoint Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt as CEO of America. Whether Tunney is trying to be amusing, or she’s deranged, or she’s ...
I was recently on the lot at Warner Brothers in Burbank, and the movie studio has indeed undergone some major changes in response to threats from the Internet industry. What used to be a marketing department has been transformed into a cubicle farm now known on the QT as the Department for Breaking the Internet. Similarly, the building where writers ...
