Word: silicon
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...news. Prices for Enron's main market - natural gas - will skyrocket as demand climbs. Which is bad for Californians. Skilling predicts the shortfall in California this summer will be 5,000 megawatts - five times greater than the problem that sparked the power crisis in January. In fact, Skilling predicts Silicon Valley and homeowners alike will be paying for the state's misguided deregulation attempt for "another three to four or five years" until new infrastructure can take the edge off prices. "The state of California has given deregulation a terrible name," he says...
...there was a public debate about the failure of the school system," Wegelius says. "We thought, what if we could take the storytelling powers of the media world and marry that with the best academic content using new interactive digital technology - take Hollywood and Stanford and move them to Silicon Valley? Maybe we could create a completely new learning environment...
...about San Francisco is changing, and even people who aren't negatively affected are upset." Interestingly, she notes, many of the dotcoms reviled by artists and neighborhood activists started out like a lot of other quirky, creative San Francisco projects. "They just happened to coincide with the rise of Silicon Valley and the high-tech industry," Lloyd says...
...statistic is missing from the slew of data published about the state of the U.S. economy. It is the length of the commute between San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Since last fall, when the layoffs began in the valley, this journey, which I have been making twice a day for the past 15 years, has started to shorten...
...this is good news for those of us whose business is to help start and organize young companies. Today Silicon Valley is akin to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., after spring break. The tourists have abandoned us. Most of the people who came here in search of a quick buck during the past few years have gone. The foreign billionaires have scuttled back to Europe and Asia, the corporate parvenus have retreated, and Hollywood celebrities no longer swish through our office seeking a smattering of pixie dust...