Word: siliconing
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...understanding of alchemy: the glass flowers in the Natural History museum, past the Science Center on Oxford Street. Anyone who has ever been asked to spin a convincing argument from difficult material will appreciate the glassblowers' unbelievable skill in crafting plants from silicon. These are not the kind of flowers one might bring as a gift; they're Amazonian plants, butterflies, beetles, vegetables, stalks, grass, all startlingly lifelike...
...join the digital era. In programs like Achiever.com and the Cisco Networking Academies, there's self-interest on both sides. The companies help create a skilled workforce that can install and maintain its products--and make money too. The students get their lives on track. In Silicon Valley this is known as "philanthropic entrepreneurialism," and it looks very much like the wave of the future. There are still a lot of disaffected people with a lot to prove to the world. Given means, motive and opportunity, anyone can breach the digital divide. It's as easy as turning...
...lady at the table in the center of the room is shouting like a high school cheerleader. It's April 1998, and George W. Bush is standing in front of a huge plate-glass window that frames much of Silicon Valley. Bush is out near Sand Hill Road, home to the venture capitalists, and he is talking with unusual passion about education, the New Economy and his record in Texas. The small banquet room is overflowing with VCs, dotcomers and gearheads who have paid $1,000 a plate to meet the man who might be the next President. Some arrived...
When Bush heard the spontaneous outburst, he looked at the crowd and decided to unbuckle his full sermon for them--about his past, his family, his relationship with Democrats, the need for a "responsibility era" in Washington. Republicans had ignored Silicon Valley for years, but here was Bush, putting them at the top of his list. "He was in the zone," remembers Karl Rove, his chief strategist, who masterminded Bush's presidential run and was there that day. Even as Bush talked, he was working the crowd with his eyes, and couldn't help noticing one guy in particular whose...
TOUCH AND GO Admit it. Your company spends thousands of dollars on a secure computer network, and you keep your password on a Post-it note stuck to the monitor. Siemens thinks it has a better way--a mouse ($150 at siemensidmouse.com that doubles as a security system. A silicon plate embedded in the top of the device reads your fingerprint and confirms your identity by matching it to a digital image. Fingerprints make excellent passwords, says Siemens spokesman Thomas Tesluk: you can't forget them, and if you lose one, hey, you've got nine others...