The research found that the traditional design was better - small, private closed offices.
Money is like gas in the car — you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road — but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations!
The Obama administration will move forward, as promised with a national program to computerize medical records. They will however, miss one of the greatest values of such an effort. Because of privacy concern, government ignorance of technology, etc the system will not have the ability for the medical industry to do data mining. With computerized records we will finally have the ability to spot drug interaction problems and perform research on the effectiveness of treatments. With data mining with patient privacy protection, our health care system can be greatly improved. We will miss that opportunity.
Internet Centric devices Theft of smart phones and Internet centric devices will become a big problem. Thieves will figure out how to steal identity information, raid bank accounts and investments, and so on. This will become a big problem.
11) My last prediction for 2009 has to do with venture capital. While investments in technology will continue, the really smart VCs will realize there is a much better and more certain way to make a ton of money in the short term: start a bank. Look for the rebirth of community banks, in this case backed by VCs. Work with me on this one. There is no credit available because the big banks won’t lend. But it takes only about $20 million to start a very fine little bank that WILL loan money because the cash can be acquired from the Fed for almost nothing and lent at high rates to technology companies that can pay it back. By creating banks the technology industry will become self-funding. And when the big banks finally stop being frozen with fear and want to take back the lending business, they’ll have to buy all those little banks for at least a 10X multiple. It’s not like starting Cisco or Dell, but a 10-bagger business model that can be replicated over and over again while actually helping the nation can’t fail.
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