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This issue is dedicated to the memory of Phil Eastick, a longtime SNS Member, a great friend, and a great Australian.

 

Our thoughts also go out to Sean Maloney of Intel this week, in hopes that he is back at work soon.

 

– mra.

 

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Join us for the 8th Annual

 

Future in Review (FiRe) 2010 Conference

 

May 11-14, at Terranea, Palos Verdes

 

“The best technology conference in the world.”
    – The Economist.

 

 

www.futureinreview.com

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year’s theme: “Emerging Platforms”: Handhelds, Smartphones, Media Players, Pads, e-Books, Netbooks, Smartbooks, and (Repairing) the Cloud.

 

 

Participants and Speakers include (but are not limited to):

 

Ray Ozzie, Chief Software Architect, Microsoft

 

Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, NVIDIA

 

Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm

 

John Cramer, Science Fiction Author and Professor Emeritus, Physics, University of Washington; on time reversal

 

John Delaney, Professor of Oceanography and Jerome M. Paros Endowed Chair in Sensor Networks, and Director, Regional Scale Nodes Program, University of Washington; on building the world’s first broadband ocean-floor remote sensing network

 

Eric Darmstaedter, CEO, ClearFuels Technology

 

Chris Hancock, CEO, AARNet

 

Ricardo Salinas, Chairman of the Board, Grupo Salinas

 

 

            (See “Upcoming SNS Events” for more details)

 

 

» Samsung

 

 

I had the opportunity to make a new friend last week – someone who had, it turned out, recently attended my annual predictions talk in Bellingham. He had spent the last 20 years building two communications companies for a Japanese parent corp: one in the U.S. and one in Canada. He kept the latter.

 

In other words, he struck me as a very smart guy.

 

Our conversation turned quickly to Asia, and he told me two things I found interesting and a little surprising.

 

First: The Japanese think long-term, as in 100 years; they see the Chinese as short-term planners, with business more driven by connections/family. Your friend changes businesses, you follow him in as a supplier.

 

Second: Of all their competitors on the global stage, the Japanese fear the South Koreans most. During the late-night drinking sessions, these are the folks who dominate competition worries.

 

Now, I have always thought that the Japanese probably had the best understanding of the China model (see “SNS: What Is China?” 1.4.2010), so this statement really caught my attention. While the rest of the world is focused on China and the effects of its new model, what are the Japanese thinking?

 

I asked if it was possible that this perception was changing as China grew, and he said it was possible, but he had not seen any evidence of it.

 

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