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***SNS*** Asia Letter: Q1 2010
By Scott Foster
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To all FiRe Participants: Book your hotel rooms now, and make sure your bio and picture are on our website.
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
http://www.futureinreview.com/index.php
Latest additions:
“Peak Water,” with Wendy Pabich, President, Water Futures Inc.; and film producer, Patagonia: Ice to Ocean;
“CyberWar: Today and Tomorrow,” with Joseph Menn, author, Fatal System Error;
Climate Refugees: A first look at this Sundance film, with director and creator Michael P. Nash (don’t forget, last year’s FiRe Film The Cove, by Louie Psihoyos, just received the Academy Award for Best Documentary);
“Scaling Alternative Energy”: An Opening Night talk by world expert Nathan Lewis, George L. Argyros Professor of Chemistry, Caltech; and
“Sustainable Housing”: Real and proposed sustainable dwellings, with Robert Bornn, Founder, BuildingCircles Organization; and Hank Louis, Founder and Director, DesignbuildBLUFF, College of Architecture + Planning, University of Utah; hosted by Mark Foster, Partner, ZGF Architects.
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, on “The Complex World of Emerging Platforms, from Cloud to Phone”
Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, NVIDIA
Paul Jacobs, CEO, Qualcomm Steve Squyres, Principal Investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER) and Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University; on “Finding Life on Mars”
A New Panel: “The Business and Technology Behind Hollywood”
John Cramer, Science Fiction Author and Professor Emeritus, Physics, University of Washington; on “Quantum 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
Plus:
Glenn Dasmalchi, Technical Chief of Staff, Cisco
Eric Darmstaedter, CEO, ClearFuels Technology
Chris Hancock, CEO, AARNet
– the BBC, the Economist, the LATimes, a dozen FiReStarter Companies bent on changing the world, and many, many more (see the online agenda for details: www.futureinreview.com/agenda.php).
Many thanks to our generous FiRe 2010 sponsors:
Publisher’s Note: Asia Editor Scott Foster has again brought this continent, with its issues, challenges, and connections, directly into members’ view with this latest quarterly update. If you are doing business in Asia, you will be glad we all have Scott’s contacts and insight from which to benefit each quarter. – mra.
By Scott Foster
Everybody’s Out of Step But Me
Considering the level of dissatisfaction with international trade relations in the United States, it may be worthwhile to review some recent developments in Asia, where national development models are being combined with trade agreements in an effort to gain the benefits of both without suffering the imbalances that the U.S. has brought upon itself by failing to adjust the system when it had the power to do so. We will start with Japan, the inventor of East Asia’s export-led growth strategy, which has balanced trade with China and surpluses with almost everybody else except suppliers of natural resources, but which nevertheless finds itself on the defensive.
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