MIT Emerging Technologies Conference

StoneLion writes "At Technology Review's Emerging Technologies Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week, speakers in various disciplines provided fascinating glimpses of future technology, including exotica like hydrogen energy and smart dust. NewsForge has a conference report." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

Comments

Re:Interesting quote from Dell

[w.p.richardson]

Perfectly ties in with why Dell is going into the wireless biz to compete with Blackberry (RiM); Hardware benefits only the company selling it.

conference presentations

[stonebeat.org]

i wish the presentations from MIT Emerging Technologies Conference, LinuxWorld, and Apache be available on the internet for free. I can't go to all of them. i only have money to goto to ApacheCon :(

Video taping them, and making them available on the internet or on a CD for a charge could be also beneficial. Just a thought.

GE's China and India competition?

[cpopin]

Jeffrey Immelt, chairman of General Electric: "China and India will be strong international competitors, while the Internet levels the playing field for price."

Part of leadership is personal. Immelt said, "People in the organization need to feel you're a part of their life, that they're a phone call away from the top of the company. They need to be able to trust the organization's command chain to pass information in an unfiltered way."

As a former GE employee I can say GE is an innovator in outsourcing competition to China and India. I'd like to make a phone call to the top of the company: "Hey, could you please stop sending American jobs overseas?"

The board will award Immelt 250,000 performance share units (PSUs) with a present value of $7.5 million -- 8.5% more than Immelt's 2002 salary and bonus.
...he already makes $6.9 million in bonuses and salary...
Source: RatcliffeBlog

Pictures here

[xyote]

here under Photo Gallery. I'll let you pass your own judgement.