Kicking Silicon & the Death Star – 2 bare links

[Netscape’s ex – sold it to AOL – Marc Andreesen, Google

Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt,  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, and other businesspersons and financiers of the Silicon Valley school] all  uniformly emphasized the need for improvements to America’s A) education  system, and B) immigration system. Which is great, because both of  those systems are in need of reform. But the Silicon Valley idea of  reform for these two systems is that school systems should be awash in  charter schools and standardized measurement, and that very smart  foreign-born students who come to the US to get higher degrees should  all be awarded green cards, so that they can stay here to work. In other  words, their solutions to these huge systemic problems extend as far as  the needs of Silicon Valley.

– from here

Yes, Virginia there will be a Death Star.

– from here