Friday, June 04, 2010 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: research,
Bill Gates,
eco,
Microsoft,
Clouds,
Greenhouse,
Engineering
In the marvelous playground that is the mind of Microsoft billionaire, Bill Gates, the world must look like a Mario Kart video game. Gates is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards, seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.
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Friday, March 26, 2010 | Posted by: Grant Thornton
Categories:
Environment,
Technology
| Tags: technology,
innovators,
Bill Gates,
economist,
eco,
nuclear,
travelling-wave reactor,
Nathan Myhrvold,
TerraPower
The Economist online runs a profile of formidable innovators involved in a phenomenal project.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | Posted by: Brian Maguire
Categories:
Media,
Technology
| Tags: Bill Gates,
Facebook,
Google,
Microsoft,
award,
Innovation,
social networking,
Ross Perot,
Social media,
Mark Zuckerberg,
Superfreakonomics,
Steven Levitt,
Economist Innovation Award,
billionaire
Mark Zuckerberg has a huge problem – what’s he going to do next? This year’s Economist Innovation Award winner, the 24-year old billionaire creator and Facebook CEO, may have peaked too early. Until Facebook develops an application to tell the future, the profile of another Ivy League drop-out, entrepreneur and programmer provides some insight. Zuckerberg may be the next William Gates III – energetic, opportunistic, commercially savvy.
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