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...Silicon Valley, meanwhile, was loving it all. Larry watching is a big-time sport in Northern California. And Ellison's latest escapade incorporated all the traits that make him so compulsively watchable: ruthless competitiveness ("It's not enough that we win; all others must lose," he has said, paraphrasing Genghis Khan); love of the spotlight (a biography of him by Mike Wilson is titled The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison); a preternatural obsession with Microsoft and Gates; and a management style that sometimes has an inmates-running-the-asylum feel. "This...
...other words, Eldorado just closed its gates. That bright shining myth we became so accustomed to over the past two years, the idea that you can make your millions simply by being at the right junction of Silicon Valley's Route 101 at the right time, no longer applies. Says Tony Perkins, editor of Red Herring magazine: "No one is going to become a billionaire in the Internet era without deserving it anymore." Or earning, through decades of turn and burn, an inescapable engineer gravity. The revolution is dead; long live the evolution...
...major technology in development at the Center are DNA chips--matrices that contain a large set of genes from a particular organism all mounted on a silicon wafer...
Until recently, Dreier and his fellow Republicans had managed to separate the two issues. Cash-rich, labor-hungry Silicon Valley companies have been pushing Congress to make it easier to import programmers and engineers rapidly. To satisfy the Valley, Congress wants to raise the cap on so-called H-1B visas for the second time in two years...
Impossible? No, inevitable. Three important trends are on a collision course: the growing power and wealth of the game industry (the 21st century's answer to Hollywood), exponential advances in silicon and biotechnology, and a demographic shift that will put purchasing power in the hands of a generation that was brought up on video games and sees no point in putting them away. Already, the majority of people who play on PCs and video consoles are over 18. Tens of billions of dollars are being spent by the likes of Microsoft and Sony to ensure that they'll still...