Word: silicon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...four main routes: An analyst can stay in investment banking and seek a promotion, go to a venture capital firm, to private industry, or to business school. Industry is the most popular choice, especially with 25-year-old Internet millionaires cropping up everywhere--some analysts even leave early for Silicon Valley. And more and more graduates are skipping finance altogether to found their own Internet companies; some college students try to found start-ups while taking semesters...
...course, the creative, intelligent computer has done far better in capturing the public imagination than have its unexciting number-crunching counterparts. A world in which computers were as creative as humans would seem to leave the poor carbon-based creatures little room to excel, especially if their silicon rivals continued to increase in speed and capacity for processing information at an exponential rate. What would the humans do in a world where their machines outsmart them...
...Yale, I am displeased with The Crimson's unprofessional attitude towards New Haven. The city is home to 450,000 hard-working and well-educated residents, and, according to the Wall Street Journal, harbors the nation's second highest concentration of high-tech jobs in the nation after Silicon Valley. New Haven has more theaters than Boston, is within easy access of New York City, and has a contiguity of restaurants, nightspots, theaters and other shops surrounding the Yale campus. Frankly, downtown New Haven makes Cambridge look like a sterile, uninviting area--perhaps a reflection of the Harvard administration...
...this almost invariably involves large layoffs. But the non-titans usually want to expand where they overlap. As with Personify and Anubis, "a lot of times a company will buy another company just because it means acquiring good employees," says Jason McCabe Calcanis, editor and CEO of the Silicon Alley Reporter, a magazine that tracks digital media...
...worry? coma, but it hasn't made the problem go away. There are untold millions of embedded chips and creaky old computer systems that will continue to keep track of the date in terms of two-digit years, and no one can predict with certainty how many of our silicon friends will freak out when both digits suddenly come up empty...