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...hardly likely to appeal to a tough-minded American venture capitalist at the top of his game. But there was another side to the equation that led Norman Prouty to head for India three years ago. By his calculation, 40% of all successful high-tech stock IPOs in Silicon Valley were floated by Indian entrepreneurs. Why not go to the source of all that talent and help it reach its full potential by adding venture capital and U.S. business know-how? Prouty's reckoning seems to be paying off. As managing director of ICF Ventures, he is helping modernize...
...year. In the intervals, Prouty finds that work is the best antidote for his loneliness, and India is the beneficiary. With one hand on the pulse of the country's tech industry and the other flipping through a Rolodex of global resources, Prouty is helping import the vibrancy of Silicon Valley to southern India...
...sense of unfairness is compounded by a feeling that the government has taken the side of Microsoft's enemies in Silicon Valley, when it ought to be neutral. Silicon Valley is full of hypocrites who talk about the free market but come running to the government to hobble a competitor. Silicon Valley also is full of characters--such as Larry Ellison of Oracle and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems--who do fit the stereotype of obnoxious megalomaniac so often and unfairly applied to Bill Gates. Or, again, so it seems to many in Redmond...
...will this revolution go? Will we ever understand the brain as well as we understand the heart, say, or the kidney? Will mad scientists or dictators have the means to control our thoughts? Will neurologists scan our brains down to the last synapse and duplicate the wiring in a silicon chip, giving our minds eternal life...
...these three premises together, and the implication is clear: the dino genes are still out there. So throw your mind forward a few decades, and try out the following screenplay. A bunch of bioinformatics nerds in Silicon Valley, looking for an eye-catching project to showcase the latest IPO, decide to try to re-create the genome of a dinosaur. They bring together a few complete bird genomes--complete DNA texts from the cells of different birds--and start mapping the shared features. The result is a sort of prototype genome for a basic bird...