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Open systems appear to have a huge advantage over traditional, closed systems. Witness Firefox 3.5 ascending to the most used Web browser, or Wikipedia revolutionizing the world of online encyclopedias. The folks at Google recently outlined their understanding of the meaning of open. This paragraph stood out: Open systems have the potential to spawn industries. They harness the intellect of [...] The State of Michigan is planning to build a huge data center using green technology. The new system “would cut the cost of running government by reducing the number of duplicate computer systems operated by cities, counties and state agencies. The plan envisions a public-sector cloud that would offer application hosting and managed services to any [...] Eric Schmidt of Google recently gave a speech at the New America Foundation (a post-partisan think tank) in which he outlined the need for an innovation bailout for the US. Instead of simply bailing out failing institutions, we need to take this opportunity to revolutionize our economy, particularly our energy and transportation infrastructures. Detroit needs an [...] Can we all agree that the culture of waste, excess, and inefficiency in America needs to die quickly? Becoming more efficient with our use of energy is critical to breaking the cycle of debt. Energy is at the root of our wealth creation system. I like where Google is going with this: In particular, [...] |
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