It also vaulted Mr. Jones and Mr. Bush, who are black, into the relatively insular world of high-tech entrepreneurs -- a world in which few black technologists have become prominent.
Autonomous driving is often considered the brainchild of Sebastian Thrun, among a few other technologists, but Thrun is already looking to move on to the next mode of transportation — and he isn't alone.
Our belief is based on an observation that many of the large industries in the U.S. are in some form of crisis, but few top technologists — and few investors — set their sights on fixing the parts of our economy that could have the greatest impact on overall prosperity and well-being (financial services, healthcare systems, government, education, agriculture, logistics, etc).
The problem is, the market is shifting so much, that there are fewer and fewer highly skilled technologists that are interested in W2 full-time positions.
Eleven prominent men and women, few of them technologists, suggested a technology or gadget they would like to see invented.
My 12-year-old niece might live in a higher-tech age than I grew up in, but there are still surprisingly few inspiring female technologists in her life.
But CFP is still one of the few places where technologists, policy wonks, government officials, and the cyber-libertarian fringe can get together and have open and honest, if not entirely friendly, conversations.
When Greenspan took office in 1987, the PC was, for most consumers and businesspeople, just making its way onto the desktop, and the Internet was the province of a few hard-core technologists.
During last summer's BART strike, a few outspoken Silicon Valley technologists incurred the wrath of the civil libertarian press for suggesting that San Francisco should simply automate the train operators and be done with the labor mess.
