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2008
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HEADLINES:
- The Week / Gilder’s Book of the Month: The Deniers
- Friday Feature / Gaining the
Edge in Broadband Wireless (video)
- Friday
Blogger Bonus / Soon, all design will be embedded design
- Readings /
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the world’s leading tech executives and entrepreneurs and
market-moving economists and investment advisors. |
The Week
/ Gilder’s Book of the Month: The Deniers
George Gilder: Richard Vigilante has launched an eponymous publishing
company
--Richard Vigilante
Books--that takes advantage
of all the new Amazonian efficiencies to produce great books in days rather
than years.
His first book, replete with statistics
and material as recent as February 2008, ends the global warming debate before
Al Gore can even start his new $300M climate change panic campaign.
Entitled The
Deniers and already a
#3 Amazon bestseller in Canada and leaping list-wise in the US, it tells the
story of "The World Renowned scientists who stood up against global
warming hysteria, political persecution, and fraud"
Gore recently declared, as I recall his
words, that scientists opposing his theory are the kind of people who party
together with the flat earth society, with holocaust deniers, and with cultists
who claim that the Apollo moon landing was concocted on a back lot in Burbank.
But it turns out that these denier folk
comprise most of the world's leading climate scientists, physicists, and
statisticians, including hundreds of participants in the IPCC reports that Gore
cites as an impregnable consensus. Among the scores of deniers interviewed and
analyzed in the book are Freeman Dyson, the world's most eminent living
physicist, Hendrik Tennekes, director of research, Royal Netherlands
Meteorological Institute who asserts that the global warmers cannot tell the
difference between "clouds and clocks," David Bromwich, president of
the International Commission on Polar Meteorology who can find no global
warming signal "from the mainland of Antarctica right now," and Reid
Bryson, "father of scientific climatology," the world's most cited
climatologist and a sainted environmentalist, who responds to a question about
Gore's movie: "Don't make me throw up."
Covering the range of global warming
claims, from the famed "hockey stick graph" to a predicted rise of
mosquito borne diseases, the book is fascinating and even profound on the flaws
of computer modeling, the irrelevance of consensus to science, the crippling
effects of excessive specialization, and the mounting evidence of a coming
cooling trend.
Its author is
Canadian environmentalist Lawrence Solomon, who ends with a cogent explanation
of how carbon taxes and offsets devastate the environment.
Order Your Copy Today:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0980076315/gilderpublish-20
Meet the publisher Richard Vigilante at
Telecosm 2008.
Register TODAY: www.TelecosmConference.com
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Friday Feature / Air Kings: Gaining the Edge in Broadband Wireless (Video)
George Gilder moderates “Air Kings” the Telecosm 2007 wireless panel featuring Jeff Belk, Senior Vice
President of Strategy and Market Development, Qualcomm; Simon Cao, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer, Arasor; Daniel Foty, Chief Technology Officer, Sarissa
Radio; Jon Medved, Chief Executive Officer, Vringo
Learn
about the upside surprises to come in the rapidly rising teleputer, wireless
broadband, and mobile digital media markets. Listen to the first audience
question, asked by Wired contributing editor Spencer Reiss.
View the
Video:
http://www.discovery.org/v/49
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Friday Blogger Bonus / Soon, all design will be embedded design
Nicolas Mokhoff, EETimes.com (04/16/08): With 2008 marking the 20th anniversary of the
Embedded Systems Conference, ESC has become an industry "essential."
The question is how its role might shift in the next 20 years as virtually all
design becomes embedded design.
Merely
identifying embedded systems has become harder. There's an embedded system
hidden under the hood of almost every gadget on which consumers rely. While
desktop machines are based on well-known microprocessors, it's tougher to get a
handle on the myriad embedded devices that form the soul of today's
applications.
Several
ESC keynote speakers arrived at a common conclusion: If 20 years ago 2 percent
of processors were dedicated to desktop applications and 98 percent to embedded
designs, 20 years from now that ratio will be 1:99. "We'll want more and
more of the processing power in 20 years," said Nick Tredennick, technology analyst for
Gilder Publishing. "The only difference will be that everything embedded
will be terabyte-based, instead of today's gigabyte world."
Tredennick's
long industry experience is a bellwether. While at Motorola, he designed the
microprocessor that became the central engine for the original Apple Macintosh.
He was once chief scientist at Altera, and he was named an IEEE fellow for his
contributions to microprocessor design. "We'll see a $1 trillion
semiconductor market in 2028, and for all practical purposes it will all be
embedded," Tredennick told his ESC audience. "So I'm not sure if the
'embedded' nomenclature will survive”….
Read
on:
http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207400065
HEAR NICK TREDENNICK SPEAK AT TELECOSM
2008.
Register today: www.TelecosmConference.com.
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Readings /
Tuning Terahertz
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/20649/?a=f
How to Reduce Health Care Costs
http://www.forbes.com/opinions/forbes/2008/0421/031.html
Phase-Change
Materials Could Boost Reconfigurable Chips
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/jan08/5949
Ditch Your Laptop For These Gadgets
http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/04/18/ultra-mini-pcs-tech-intel-cx_bc_0418ultramini.html
Ditch Your Laptop For These Gadgets
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120852343658326113.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news
FCC Gets an Earful From Open-Net Defenders at Stanford
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/fcc-gets-an-ear.html
Clothes That
Monitor Health
http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/20642/
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