“Wake-Up Call for Europe Tech” By Frank Schirrmacher

German publisher and journalist takes his fellow Europeans to task for their lack of vision and understanding and in the process names many fascinating people and describes their ideas and creations. Recommended.

“Reduced to its skin and bones.” The new reality just over the horizon will have as much in common with Windows as a monitor does with a windowpane. What then? “To grasp the scale of this revolution, think of the everyday things,” recommends Hillis. Unlike Myhrvold, he is not yet a billionaire and is founding a new company: “Think of visits to administrative offices, schools, universities, libraries or doctors. In a few decades, all these things will no longer be as we now know them.”