My answer: Google.
Drastically different from all the companies
created by entrepreneurs mentioned in the article.
(The difference is that Google is truly innovative - built on a very original idea of PageRank, while neither MS, nore FaceBook, nor even Apple invented anything new).
Why? May be because the founders are not dropouts?
Now if you want to be drug addict - be a college dropout. The best addicts I know are dropouts. Do you want to be a crank - be a college dropout. The best cranks I know are dropouts.
'sucks a lot electricity, thousand of volts'...
And that magazine called * Science???
Electricity, like any energy, is measured in Watts.
Volts are used to measure voltage, not energy.
The connection to non-Apple word is quite obvious - ARM is _very_ popular architecture, used by many, many semiconductor producers (Atmel, Samsung etc.)
Yes, probably this is true, but, it is
like saying that "by nature, all humans have facilities for speech, and they are free to speak up whatever they want; however there are many laws they can be used for punishment afterwards". I remember in the movie "Food Inc" in Colorado there is a law that prevents you from public criticizing businesses if you can hurt there profits. So "freedom of speach" is quite narrow term in fact.
The author of the article do not realize,
that his e-mail may be public for many reasons,
such as:
- Somebody have enormous idea and want to share it;
- Somebody found mistake in his work;
e.t.c. I mean, the authors thinks that
the reasons to have public e-mail is to have _public_ interactions, which is not true obviously.
There are some researches going on,
which say that intestine parasites decrease sensitivity to allergy. I am quite allergic, but I dont think nonetheless, that I like the idea of having "tenants".
BTW, allergy has increased recently, but so did life expectancy [and it especially high in clean countries]....Blame cleanliness?
Have not read the paper yet, but, ironically, according to some scientists, initially LSD was thought to be psychosis inducing drug, useful for teaching medical students about inner world of mentally ill people.
It is relevant in many, many different ways:
1. In short - it is relevant in the same way as talks about banking system, unemployment e.t.c - indirectly but in a profound way.
2. It is also relevant in a way that this was a major event
of the Cold War, and that war was a vehicle of many technological advances of USA.
3. It is also relevant for general knowledge of the world around - especially for brainwashed American people, who might have been thinking that American were first in space,
and that happened in mid-80s.
Ha..
And we do not count how many software engineering problems have been solved this way.
But it is incorrect to attribute this to Blogging only.
The phenomena of collaborative research through electronic media started in early 80-s, with rise of Usenet.
Then IRC, webforums took part. So it is gradual, not revolutionary.
As it was said already, higher does not mean higher productivity. In fact often lower productivity.
Another point : inequality in any society is a bad thing.
People live shorter lives, more crime e.tc., in short more misery. There is a new book, called "the spirit level"
talking about the issue.
So concentration of money in hands of not many creates unwanted side-effect: concentration of power. If you are a middle class person you should be really upset, when power to make decision, to influence future is being transferred from you to upper class.
By the way, OTC medicines are neither best or safest ones,
they just have become OTC for certain political reasons.
Just the whole business of prescribing everything other than Benadryl or Tylenol, allows doctors to make huuge profits, by forcing people to visit doctor to extend prescription.
Who sponsored/paid for the research - that is also important.
Indeed, it is liker saying that more green, let's say Europe,
is full of cheats compared to USA, where people are "more conventional".
There was by the way report that many studies are fraudulent nowadays. Perhaps this is the case.