Social Change

California-China connection (1 of 2)

I attended a meeting at UC San Diego last week called the “California-China Connection.” It was organized by the journal Nature and UCSD as a kind of hands-across-the-sea program to bring the heads of Chinese universities with growing biotechnology programs to the US—specifically to fraternize with UCSD faculty—and talk about how each can advance growth in biological science. It makes ...

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Toothing

A few months ago I mentioned TunA, a Bluetooth enabled MP3 player that allows users in close proximity to trade songs via the Bluetooth radio frequency. I also suggested that this technology could become a hot way to meet people in dense populated areas such as subways and conferences. Both of these bold predictions came true. In Great Brittan people ...

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Rise in Hispanics and Asian-Americans Is Predicted

Here’s a demographic update from the NY Times for populations in the US. The Hispanic and Asian-American populations in the United States are expected to triple by 2050, when non-Hispanic whites would account for the barest majority, according to a Census Bureau report to be released Thursday. By 2050: Total US pop: 420 million (282 m now) Hispanic pop: 24.4% ...

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"The Secret of Our Sauce"

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has commented that America’s answer to offshoring is our innovative and entrepreneurial culture. He says it can’t be duplicated anywhere. With some reservations, I tend to agree with him (some of you may remember our discussion a few months ago of You’re-in-Control at MIT.)

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