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In This Issue     Feature: Defining Cyberwar     Quotes of the Week   Ethermail   SNS Takeout Window   The Apple iPad: What Steve Got Wrong Global Warming Trends: NASA Data Members Seeking Opportunities   In Other House News…   Welcome New Members How to Subscribe May I Share This Newsletter? About SNS About the Publisher Where’s Mark?

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LAST CALL ON GREAT PRICING.

 

Save $1,500 on Future in Review 2010 by signing up before February 5 at midnight, at: https://www.tapsns.com/fire/registration.php

 

This year’s theme: “Emerging Platforms: How to Benefit.”

 

Meet NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, subject of our Centerpiece Conversation, where he will explain how his GPU chips are replacing Intel’s CPUs at every level of computing;

 

AND SNS Member Paul Jacobs, CEO of QUALCOMM, for our Day 2 Centerpiece Conversation on smartbooks, Snapdragon chips, and the future of wireless.

 

Other themes we’ll be addressing:

 

Netbooks: Since we invented them, FiRe is a great place to learn about how the fastest-growing form factor in computing will expand over the next three years.

 

Cloud Computing: Last year, FiRe was the launch pad for the Infrastructure 2.0 Working Group, fixing until-then unknown “broken” aspects in Cloud design. Come to FiRe to learn how to “fix the Cloud.”

 

You also might want to:

 

Talk to Steve Jobs’ personal advisor, in person.

 

Learn more about Sweden’s Sustainable Cities, catch up on how you can be part of the Australian Miracle, and find out about Japan’s plans for fuel cells.

 

See QUALCOMM’s smartbooks and Snapdragon chips.

 

Hear what’s next for Google’s Android platform and applications.

 

Approach Fixing Healthcare by re-connecting patient to doctor.

 

 

And, of course, catch our now world-famous CTO Design Challenge, with Larry Smarr and David Brin.

 

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» Defining Cyberwar

 

What if they gave a war, and nobody came? It’s an old joke.

 

But what if the next war were so different from the last that it was over before the victims even knew a war had begun? Even better, what if they never found out who attacked them?

 

Even better: what if they never knew there had been a war?

 

Welcome to the new world of Cyberwar. If you think you’ve already read about this, or thought it through, well – I doubt it. I don’t think anyone has, even those whose job it is to do just that.