Craig Barrett: Inside Intel's future

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Fair resumption of political and market issues but...

Education:

I agree with Barrett's views on education. I am a Canadian with 3 children, aged 3-9, and am planning to put them in private school ASAP. Either this or private tutoring - although I doubt this would be enough. The issues surrounding our education run deep and include lack of understanding in how to educate various kids. Case in point - my 9 year old son is a relationship person and while I absolutely believe maths and sciences are important I would put him on a relationship-oriented track (psychologist, teacher, doctor) which would include music, drama, math/science, history with a focus on team sports. My middle son (7) is a loaner who likes people. He's mathematically minded. I'd put a heavy focus on math and music (extracurricular) with a regular dose of the humanities.

Industry:

Barrett may be right about Scott's need to drive Sun in a new direction and away from proprietary hardware for the sake of the company. I fundamentally disagree that this is good for industry. Who will drive innovation if Sun's out of the picture. It's akin to Open Source vs. Prop. A healthy technical society needs what open source brings in terms of non-agenda open source products like Python (OO language). These are not driven by consumer needs and sales targets but by the interest of their creators in solving a problem. While putting a man on the moon was not a commercial venture can you imagine a world where no man had gone into space. Would we have sent all the probes we did? Would the Hubble be up there now making new discoveries about our universe? What commercial value can you attach to this?

Innovation only happens when there are real fundemental alternatives to the dominant player. I hope Scott (loses his hubris firstly) and Sun find a way to make it work as I confess I don't know how they will. We need them and others to not want to be Intel imitators (unfortunately like AMD and Transmeta). Is it fare to ask Sun to be the social altruist at the risk of their demise. Probably not but I hope they find a way to make it work.

Posted by: aquraish   Posted on: 10/23/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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