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Paul Saffo

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Name: Paul Saffo

First reported Jun 11 2013 - Updated Jun 11 2013 - 1 reports

US National Security Agency

Cassidy: NSA Prism surveillance program sullies digital relationships

_ I used to joke that I would get the ultimate revenge if anyone ever collected an online dossier on me: Any intelligence analyst reading through the digital details of my life would die of boredom.I'm not laughing anymore.In the wake of the revelations ... [Published Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Jun 11 2013]

Entities: Paul Saffo, US National Security Agency, PRISM (Surveillance Program)

First reported Jun 02 2013 - Updated Jun 02 2013 - 1 reports

Families flock to Palo Alto's 'civic hacking' celebration

Outside Palo Alto, the phrase "civic hacking" may sound like an oxymoron.But here in the land of Facebook millionaires, the famous HP garage and Stanford geniuses, it's a cause to for the city to promote and celebrate. That's what the city did Saturday, ... [Published Palo Alto Online - Jun 02 2013]

Entities: Computer Hacking, Robotics, Laser, Computer Hacker

First reported May 31 2013 - Updated Jun 01 2013 - 2 reports

Hacking for Change Across the U.S.

Twenty-two federal agencies, including the Census Bureau, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, NASA, and the Peace Corps are opening up their data files—at least some of them—to hackers around the United States today as part of the National Day of ... [Published Spectrum Online - May 31 2013]

Entities: Computer Hacking, Computer Hacker, United States, Paco Nathan, Jim Fruchterman

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

On Ethernet’s 40th anniversary, inventors talk about its creation, future innovations

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—As for the future, Metcalfe is betting on innovations coming from video, such as the substitution of communication for transportation in the energy segment; distance healthcare; and massive open online courses–MOOCs in the education ... [Published RCR Wireless News - May 24 2013]

Entities: Ethernet, Invention, Radia Perlman, Judith Estrin

First reported May 24 2013 - Updated May 24 2013 - 1 reports

Lawrence Ellison

Is the PC Dead? Looking Back on Two Decades of Debate

Futurist Paul Saffo may have been the first to proclaim the PC dead back in 1991. Six years later, PC Week editor John Dodge refuted Saffo’s position, claiming the PC was not dead and that it “will be with us a long time.” Ironically, these two were on ... [Published Oracle Developer's Journal - May 24 2013]

Entities: Paul Saffo, Lawrence Ellison, Futurist

First reported May 23 2013 - Updated May 23 2013 - 1 reports

Ethernet: the start, the evolution

Ethernet is not done yet.This is according to Bob Metcalfe, co-founder of Ethernet, who gave the opening keynote at the Ethernet Innovation Summit in Mountain View, California yesterday.He described the future of Ethernet using five prepositions: up, ... [Published IT Web - May 23 2013]

Entities: Ethernet, Robert Metcalfe, Ether, Microsoft PowerPoint

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Innovation Hub: ULI Spring Meeting in San Diego

'Innovate' was the buzzword at the Urban Land Institute’s spring conference in San Diego, May 15-17, where some 3,500 planners, developers, and real estate and land use professionals gathered to look at new models for growth, share best practices, and ... [Published Dwell - May 20 2013]

Entities: San Diego (California, United States), Land Use, Invention, Patrick Phillips, Geoffrey Colvin

First reported May 05 2013 - Updated May 05 2013 - 1 reports

Debate On Self-Driving Cars

The Economist has an interesting debate between Paul Saffo and Andrew Bergbaum on whether self-driving cars will move into normal use in the foreseeable future. One problem I see: once we reach the point where, say, driverless cars are half as dangerous ... [Published FuturePundit - May 05 2013]

Entities: Paul Saffo, The Economist, Probation

First reported Apr 10 2013 - Updated Apr 10 2013 - 1 reports

The Rise of the “Amplified” Individual Isn’t Happening in VC Alone

In recent years, we’ve seen it in publishing and venture capital among other things: Individuals are rising in power, as institutions seemingly become less relevant. Think of political blogger Andrew Sullivan, who left the world of big media in ... [Published PE Hub Blog - Apr 10 2013]

Entities: Amplifier, Happening, Venture Capital

First reported Mar 30 2013 - Updated Mar 30 2013 - 1 reports

Fashion forward March 30, 2013

You can wear your heart on your sleeve. Why not your electronics?In a burgeoning trend that has captivated Silicon Valley, a mind-boggling array of “wearable electronics” has begun to arrive, not just at a website or clothing outlet near you, but on an ... [Published Spokesman-Review.com - Mar 30 2013]

Entities: Mike Roberts, John Edson, Paul Saffo, Fashion, Avi Greengart

First reported Mar 26 2013 - Updated Mar 26 2013 - 1 reports

Technology And Transformation: Futurists Alan Kay And Vishal Sikka

This evening (March 26) The Churchill Club hosts Alan Kay (above), formerly of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Apple, and Hewlett-Packard in conversation with SAP's technology and innovation leader Vishal Sikka, hosted by analyst Paul Saffo. ... [Published Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and obse ... - Mar 26 2013]

Entities: Alan Kay, Futurist, Paul Saffo

First reported Mar 18 2013 - Updated Mar 19 2013 - 1 reports

Wearable electronics move on from iPhone, possibly to iWatch

You can wear your heart on your sleeve. Why not your electronics?In a burgeoning trend that has captivated Silicon Valley, a mind-boggling array of "wearable electronics" has begun to arrive, not just at a website or clothing outlet near you, but on an ... [Published SiliconValley.com - Mar 18 2013]

Entities: iwatch, Mike Roberts, John Edson

Quotes

"does [google's unofficial motto] 'don't be evil' now come with an asterisk? as in 'don't be evil*' (*except when the government threatens us)" longtime Silicon Valley technology forecaster Paul Saffo commented in an email

NSA revelations threaten worldwide trust in Facebook, Google [Published Chicago Tribune - Jun 15 2013]

"The Valley is absolutely absorbed by this story," said Paul Saffo, a longtime Silicon Valley technology forecaster. "it's the perfect confluence of tech geeks, privacy hawks and libertarians. the discussion is to put it bluntly, 'is google evil?' the consensus so far is that no they aren't, and google and facebook and the others will not get swept up in this."

Tech Giants Take Government Spying Feud to the Public [Published PBS - Jun 12 2013]

"It makes one nostalgic for the age of J Edgar Hoover, when they were putting stuff into file cabinets," Saffo says. "did we ever think that we would look back with nostalgia to when the fbi wasn't very good at collecting information?"

Cassidy: NSA Prism surveillance program sullies digital relationships [Published Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Jun 11 2013]

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NSA revelations threaten worldwide trust in Fac... [Published Chicago Tribune - Jun 15 2013]
Tech Giants Take Government Spying Feud to the ... [Published PBS - Jun 12 2013]
Cassidy: NSA Prism surveillance program sullies... [Published Inland Valley Daily Bulletin - Jun 11 2013]
Families flock to Palo Alto's 'civic hacking' c... [Published Palo Alto Online - Jun 02 2013]
Hacking for Change Across the U.S. [Published Spectrum Online - May 31 2013]
Hacking for Change Across the U.S. [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 31 2013]
How Jerry Brown Saved California [Published Business Insider - May 26 2013]
How Jerry Brown Saved California [Published Clusterstock - May 26 2013]
On Ethernet’s 40th anniversary, inventors talk ... [Published RCR Wireless News - May 24 2013]
Is the PC Dead? Looking Back on Two Decades of ... [Published Oracle Developer's Journal - May 24 2013]
Ethernet: the start, the evolution [Published IT Web - May 23 2013]
Design Conference Introduces Intellectual Tourism [Published Eyes In - May 23 2013]
Palo Alto tries to make 'hackathons' a family a... [Published Palo Alto Online - May 22 2013]
Innovation Hub: ULI Spring Meeting in San Diego [Published Dwell - May 20 2013]
5.19.13 New Cross-industry Collaborations: Simo... [Published Churchill Club - YouTube - May 11 2013]
Debate On Self-Driving Cars [Published FuturePundit - May 05 2013]
Long Now Foundation and long-term futurism [Published Wired: Beyond the Beyond - Apr 27 2013]
The Rise of the “Amplified” Individual Isn’t Ha... [Published PE Hub Blog - Apr 10 2013]
3.26.13 Technology and Transformation: Vishal S... [Published Churchill Club - YouTube - Apr 02 2013]
3.26.13 Technology and Transformation Vishal Si... [Published Churchill Club - YouTube - Apr 01 2013]
Fashion forward March 30, 2013 [Published Spokesman-Review.com - Mar 30 2013]
Computer Pioneer Alan Kay Says Silicon Valley I... [Published Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and obse ... - Mar 27 2013]
Technology And Transformation: Futurists Alan K... [Published Silicon Valley Watcher - conversations and obse ... - Mar 26 2013]
Wearable electronics move on from iPhone, possi... [Published SiliconValley.com - Mar 18 2013]
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Click, print, shoot: Printable guns coming to a... [Published National Post - Top Stories - Dec 21 2012]
Tracking some of the coming apocalypses [Published San Francisco Chronicle - Dec 20 2012]
Stanford Investment Group, Inc. Celebrates 30 Y... [Published PRWeb - Oct 09 2012]

Blogs

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Hacking for Change Across the U.S. [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 31 2013] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> Twenty-two federal agencies, including the Census Bureau, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, NASA, and the Peace Corps are opening up their data files—at least some of them—to hackers around the United ...
How Jerry Brown Saved California [Published Clusterstock - May 26 2013] THE CALIFORNIAN One Friday morning this spring, I drove to Washington’s Dulles airport at dawn, to catch the first nonstop flight to San Francisco. When I got off the plane six hours later, the morning sun still slanting through the terminal windows, ...
Debate On Self-Driving Cars [Published FuturePundit - May 05 2013] The Economist has an interesting debate between Paul Saffo and Andrew Bergbaum on whether self-driving cars will move into normal use in the foreseeable future. One problem I see: once we reach the point where, say, driverless cars are half as dangerous ...
Long Now Foundation and long-term futurism [Published Wired: Beyond the Beyond - Apr 27 2013] For instance, one might posit a scenario in which the emanations of the Long Now Foundation become the only surviving remnants of mankind’s entire cultural corpus. Like, a layer of isotopes in the seabed, some leftover satellites in Clarke orbits, and ...
The Rise of the “Amplified” Individual Isn’t Ha... [Published PE Hub Blog - Apr 10 2013] In recent years, we’ve seen it in publishing and venture capital among other things: Individuals are rising in power, as institutions seemingly become less relevant. Think of political blogger Andrew Sullivan, who left the world of big media in ...

Audio/Video

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5.19.13 New Cross-industry Collaborations: Simo... [Published Churchill Club - YouTube - May 11 2013]
3.26.13 Technology and Transformation: Vishal S... [Published Churchill Club - YouTube - Apr 02 2013]
3.26.13 Technology and Transformation Vishal Si... [Published Churchill Club - YouTube - Apr 01 2013]