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Derek, his mom Leslie and his dad Jeffrey are the first volunteer test subjects for a new, implantable computer device called VeriChip. Later this spring, pending Food and Drug Administration approval, doctors will load a wide-bore needle with a microchip containing a few kilobytes of silicon memory and a tiny radio transmitter and inject it under the skin of their left arms, where it will serve as a medical identification device. It sounds like science fiction. (Remember the Borg on Star Trek? Resistance is futile!) But VeriChip is quite real. The Jacobs family could be the first...
Hyman notes that Harvard is not looking to copy any other school’s success, but says he and others will certainly be studying Stanford’s success in helping to create Silicon Valley...
Companies came to be close to the school’s high-caliber minds, and gradually a technology industry grew. After rivaling Massachusetts’ Route 128 corridor throughout the 1970s, the personal computer and internet revolutions eventually propelled Silicon Valley to the head of the pack...
Others are more uncomfortable with the notion that Harvard can or should push for this goal of a Silicon Valley...
...don’t think that Silicon Valley was planned by anyone. There was no central planning, and even then many feel it has spun out of control,” he says...