EEREI L1-S1 (2013) CLASS TEST (| /60 TEACHER : David O'HanlonBILL GATES (True/ False) 3B points) 1. Bill Gates was awarded a degree by Harvard over 30 years ago. ‘True / False 2. Bill Gates was a student at Harvard over thirty years ago. ‘True J&alse d e 3. Bill Gates was awarded an honory doctorate by Harvard University 3 years after dropping out ‘True? False 4, Bill Gates was a collgze drop out. oe rue [False 5. Bill Gates considers himself Harvard's most successful failure. Tine ib? re 6. Bill Gates did not enjoy academic life. ‘True /Fals Rill Cares 7. Satin ona lot of classes he had not signed up for. oe ‘Pile? False Tail Gates 8 Claims he is a bad influence. (rue) Falsesoem ~ Tech thrives in the mountains ‘BouLDeR, coLoRADo Money, mentorship and natural beauty draw innovators to Colorado BYCLAIRECAINMILLER Sixty engineers, entrepreneurs and fr fanciers were sipping yerbamaté teaata Callee shop down the steet from 4 Dong-andslingerie store on a recent sunny Tuesday in Boulder, and discuss- Inghow the city —usually seen asanen- caveofhippies, marijuana dispensaries ‘and rock elibers — has become a ot ‘bed of capitalism, Experienced tech entrepreneur’ and investors sat alongside people who had jist moved to Boulder hoping to star a ‘company in this smal ety, which 1s breeding tech start-ups at an attention: agrabhingate Inthe irstthree months ofthe year, it Colorado tech start-ups raised $57 mi lion in venture capital, solidifying Boulders place among the up and-com {ng tech centers ofthe Uited States, in ilcon Valley, you're a smallish Ina uge pond, andie didn’t seem asco Taboative and a lot more corporate,” ‘sald Chad McGimpsey, who moved to Boulder a month ago and ie now reg larly atends the twice-a-month cofiee ‘lub, “ifere, you're a big ish in a small ‘Pond. Pius there ar the mountains” ‘Along Uist of communities around the ‘country have tried wo become "the next Silicon Valles!” But very few have the ‘mix of money, univrsjdes, a high-tech talent pool and appealing. ifestyle | needed to hatch tee startups. Boulder, however, has boon faring ech industry Yelerans and. young. entrepreneurs from Siicon Valley and New York with promises of a tech communisy thst al ows for luneh-break kes in the foot ils ofthe Rocky Mountains. ‘The town's ig successes include rally Software, a company that makes project management sotware; Social- thing, a socal media service that has been ‘acquired by AOL; and Kerpoof, ‘which makes Web design tois for ei dren and was acquired by Walt Disney ‘Venture capital dollars are following, the entrepreneurs to Colorado, Prom 2007 to 2003, venture capitalists inves- ted $1 9bilion in 275 Colorado start-ups, tp from SL6 bilion in 247 companies from 2004 to 2006, aecording to the Ne- tional Venture Capital Assoeitin, ‘The money is coming from Colorado venture firms — including the Foundry Group, a high-profile fir in Boulder — as well as from Scan Valley and New York. ‘The ecipesof other citiestor creating thenext Silicon Valley usualy leave out afew main ingrodients. Richard Flor- la, who wrote "The Rise of he Crest= ive Class" and studies wiy certain eit- es fosor creativity, ces three eruclal factors: talented people ard ahigh qual ity of life that keeps them around, tech nological expertise, and an ‘open ‘mindedness about new ways of doing things, which often comes from aston, counterculture “oulder has reached this beautifl sweet spot, where it has many advant- agesofauniversitytowin—tech andtal- ent and openness — but without many ofthe costs and teaffle and congestion that may disadvantage incumbent cen {ers of ianovation,” Mr. Florida sid. “This balance didnot conte about aci- entally. Natural foods companies lke ‘Wild Oats Markets and Celesbal Season ings startet hers, and several national labs and big techhlogy eompanies tke LBM. opened outpasts. “That genera- ‘ion of entrepreneurs had thelr suceess, ‘and important, they dont leave” said Bred Becnthal,dector of the ealre- preneurshipintative atthe University ‘f Colorado’s Seon Flatirous Center “Lots of places, you gel your money and ‘yu go retire somewhere, This places & ‘destination for people” Te center makes sre that those vet= ‘rans eras paths with young entrepre- neuf. Iosts meetups, a campuswide ‘composition for business plats, and a lav clinic, where entrepreneurs get ree legal help on things like intellectual Property protection. “TechStars, a three month mentorship ‘program that as taken place in an ot fay in Boulder since 207, has sparred thestartap community's growth, Ofthe ‘Teetologyenteoprenours aa semi-wookly gathering aa cues house a oulde, first I0comapanies that went through the program, sight received ventarefinane Ing, fve were acquired. by bigger ‘companies and chee are stil active ‘But David Cohen, the founder of Tech Stars, is equally proud of one oft fal res, because he said it showed how Supportive Boulder’ tech community Was. After EventVue, which built online communities for conferences, shut own, jb offers from ether tee compa sles eame pouring in Almost half ofthe 30 companies that shave gone through the TeehStars pro- ‘gram have decided to stay in town, ev- tral of them share space above Aj, a ‘Latin American restaurant downtown. ‘One is Everlater, for making travel journals onthe Web, ls founders, Nate ‘Abbott and Natty Zola, moved. to Boulder iosave money hy ivingia their parents’ basements after quting their Jobs on Wall Steet. Bot when they ar- ved, Mr-Zola sad, “"Werrealizedit was nineredibe place to stata company.” ‘The Foundry partners, even though they are no ivestors inthe company, roitinely give hem an hour of thet time or have them over for dinner. Are lationship with a TechStars mentor led toa partnership with Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia ‘The Foundry partners also run the coffee elu and hol fice hours, where anyone ean met wich them for free ad vice on business ea, ‘Sul, Boulder depends on silean Va: Jey, There aro not enough investors in Coloradoto finance growing companies ‘Many entrepreneurs open Califoraiau. fies, incinding Matt Galligan, who star {ed and sold Soctlthing and is now the founder of SimpleGeo, which makes ‘mapping and other locaton tools for software companies, The comszunity here is tert but in terms of generating business, there's ‘nosubatitute for StieonValey"he sald ‘And maintaining such aniviting ea ture, where top vencure captalist l frecly pve people an hour of thet time, wal be difficl if Boulder’ tect scene continues ta grow, Stil, many moved here precisely be- cause they wanted to escape ean Vek ley ands nstittionalized scene, "There isa feeling in Silleon Valley thatif you win, someone elseloses sd Kimal Musk, chief executive of One- Riot, aveal ime search engine basd in Boulder "it has driven success, but it hhasalso driven peopletoleaveFram eft dsun endetsen, Ryan Mcintyre and Ura eld ofthe Fundy Group whe vow never to send age than Soon, Bu ‘BOULDER, coLoTARD ‘BYCLAIRECADN MILLER Like stunts who choose toate a “university in small own to vei the Aistracions of bigest, the venture cspitalists at Foundry “Group hve ‘shunned Sion Valley or New York for Boulser Tn hs smal city nested in the foot hills of the Rocky Mountain sith Tviving tech startup scene, they say ‘they ean focus an old fationed tye figvesting They eschew waditinal Monday ‘mora partner meetings for tanches, and have vowed never toe june a sndstesorhanddown theft toothers ‘nen they are ready Co cere. They Ihave also vowed never to rage a fund bigger than thie warren fd of 225 raion “We sid “Let's do the erat of ven tue capi other than sale up an a set management business said Brad Fell, # cofounder of Foundry ho strikes a distinely uncon Valley Noteinapsisley-and.striped shit jeans and sneakers. "As you grow 8 tn and Jegacy, you spend ime on the won {hangs — managing the people and jos fying to investors how to tavest mare rons" The Foundry Group would be unre cogiizabe to fame big Shean Valley ‘venture capital firme, like New Enter. prise Assicates, whieh i ives SL billion across alts funds and invest in Doth start-ups and big, mature compar cking the LMT / iefmaysia ies. But ici one of new eed of firms racking ack tothe-bases ‘venture capital, ke Vion Square Ver tures, Spr Capital and Ivve, Ver ‘Mr Fel moved to Boulter from tose ton in 185 for the mountain and the sun, after selling Feld Tectinloges, a softvare cousullng starsip fe fou eee, Hebegan investing with Mobits Ven ture Capital, aSlicon Valley firm, "We came hero with 2er0expeetton of do ing business here ~ 1 figured Colorado ‘vas a base forgoing to the East Coast, ‘nd WestCoast" he sal. Butho discovered that there wee op povtmiies here. He reeruedtheee of dis Mobis partners ~ Jason Mencel- “We said, ‘Lets do the craft of al” s, Seth Levine and Ry Mette — to jon him in Boulder and. start Pound. ‘Athat pein, Moblushadallooned ‘1 people, siruggled after the dotcom trash of 2000 and ulimately di not raise anoher hind ‘The Foundry partners wanted to avoid the same ate “We're not obsessed with tance, ents, the industry macro, the global uaero” Me Feld sid." “We're. it Bouler so wecanavoid that stl being Ingurface:” Instead of casing the latest tends, tite online video oF star-upe in ida ways of Silicon Valley Foundry ok fr ompaies that are part of broad themes, ke human com iter iteractin and igtaliving, They have had some kek ait Ts yeatilo of companies ines Zynga, ‘me online garni company that eres ated Parmile on Facevook and Nas been valued at several bilan calla, nl Stocks, or mntoring tracers on Tne Previous investments include Sing Mada ie male fhe Singh, whieh EchoStar bought fo $30 mon: Su. fiub, the ecommerce ste for tickets that was sold to eBay for $810 millon; ‘and Postini an eanalleerlycompay boughtby Google or 33 malin A thin of ther porlo companies we in Colorado, a third ae in Caldera ‘and a third are elsewhece athe United | ‘States Thy tin anyother by using socal media, Each partner logs, hich has bene: fis, The partners: discovered no of their investments ~ Organic Motion, computer” ‘vision company, and Brigleat, whieh makes fgal eta for businesses — in comments lft 09 thai posts Anather investment, Gist fo improv: {ng e-mail inbones, was made afte Me Feld wroteon Twitter athe was going Tor a run, The company’s founder re: sponded and asked ite oud jin i, pact rom using Twitter or eal tow, te partners insist they are old fash inne, “IV jut return nthe oot of ven- ture expial” Mr Metre sid. 's howit was daneinthe past”BOULDER (@ poinis) True or False 1. Part of Boulder’s attraction is its outdoor lifestyle. 2. Boulder has a conservative image. 3. [In the Silicon valley you can be a big fish in a Small pond 4, People often leave Boulder after having their success, 5. The tech community in Boulder is very supportive. 6. Many firms still have offices in California. 7. The Foundry Group are venture capitalists. 8, The Foundry Group's style is very formalBOULDER MUTI-CHOICE QUESTIONS (4 points) Read the article “Tech thrives in the mountains ” and answer the following questions by selecting the hest single response. 1. Boulder Colorado has a) usually been seen asa hotbed of capitalism (©) usually been seen asan enclave of hippies and marijuana dispensaries ©) usually more famous for yeba matétea and rock climbers Pi es 2, Chad Mc Gimpsey says that in Boulder you are a) asmall fish ina big pond a (©) abig fish ina small pond (©) asmall fish in a small pond and close to the mountains 3. Unlike Boulder very few communities have the right mix of G@ money, universities, a high tech talent pool and an appealing life style b) money, mountains and appealing swimming pools ©} hippies, rock climbers and capitalists 4. Richard Florida, author of "The Creative Class” believegcites that Boulder a) has too many costs 'b) has now too much traffic and congestion has reached this beautiful sweet spot 5. TechStars a) isan exciting new start up ») isa social hasketball team G@ isathree month mentorship programme 6. According to Brad Bernthal Boulder ae @ isa destination for people b) isa retirement destination ) isa place where you get your money and then go retire somewhere else @7. Many entrepeneurs open California offices because a) they like the Silicon Valley lifestyle b) there are not enough investors in Colorado ©) they miss the beaches 8. Many people moved to Boulder because they a) like yerba mate and mountain climbing b) wanted a more institutionalized scene ©) wanted to escape Silicon ValleyKEY VOCAB - BOULDER COLORADO (3 points) A. Definitions 1. mentorship a, to produce, create or devise 4 2. innovators b. having come to understand A P something incumbent 3. eschew a small area enclosed within a larger one | 4. figured d. people who produce oF intro something new S.endlave \e to actas a wise and trusted a counselor | & hatch f existing holder of an office or position, B. 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Like arstocracies past, it seeks to remake the remainder of humanity in its image. It reaches into the innards of our consciousness to shape what we believe, how we spend our days, how we love and reason and teniember. This emerging aristocracy is, of course, the technocracy — the thousands of men and women who are striving, through the gadgets and services they sell, to change the texture of being human: tochgnge fundamental things about all of our relationships with time, with our brains, with each other. ‘To spend five days at South by Southwest in Austin — the pre-eminent global gathering for the technocrats — is to observe all this in concentrate. Here they are surrounded by i believers; here the Luddites and cynics and late adopters are scarce; here they can lay | bare inner thoughts and be frank about their plans. | 5 SXSW, as it is known, had the feeling of a pilgrimage, where devotees of the civil religion of technology mix with what some dubbed “spring break for nerds” — all-night dance parties, ample free food and booze, massages stirred, as it were, with single malts, ‘The technocrat is worthy of anthropological analysis. He — and this elite is predominantly, though not exclusively, male — favors plaid clothing, sometimes multiple layers of it, that purposely clashes. He likes chunky glasses that distract from his face. His music is the music of mostly white, guitar-strumming, angsty bands — not the 3 throbbing salsa and hip-hop and house and pop that move much of the rest of the world. When listening to this music, the technocrats dance in their own way. You will seldom see two technocrats dancing together, as the old-fashioned and the young and lusty do i elsewhere. Technocrats tend to dance facing forward, solo, eyes on the band, spared of 4 having to overcome physical awkwardness. This is how this crowd renders a dance floor 1 sur3. 6/09/2077 18:442sur3 ity Crashes the Technocrats’ Party “NYTimes.com Intp:/ www nytimes.com/201 1/03/26/us/26iht-currents26 hin! ?pa.. at midnight on a Saturday into that rare space that feels asexual and earnest. ‘The most striking thing about the technocrats, though, is the nature of their imagination — algorithmic imagination, if you will. Such an imagination conceives of human problems as fundamentally solvable, so long as we have the tools to find the objective right answer. Technocrats tend to ask questions of “how,” not “why.” Their world may be rife with design problems, but it appears all but devoid of moral or philosophical ones. ‘The moral imagination senses that objective right answers are elusive, and that the act of solving problems often requires taking sides. There may be an algorithm for building better structures in Japan, but there is no algorithm for Libya. There are only choices and disputation and trade-offs: earning the wrath of some to do right by others. ‘The technocrats are more silent on the latter kind of question. At discussions | attended, they generally repeated their mantra that more technology will refine the world, that it is only a matter of time. But outside the SXSW bubble, and sometimes within it, forceful questions are starting to be asked about the technocracy and what it wishes for us. To dip into some recent writings: James Gleick is asking whether information has become the new crack, Evgeny Morozov and Malcolm Gladwell are asking whether it really is the case, as so many casually assume, that more Internet always means more freedom and openness. Nicholas Carr is asking whether we are losing our powers of reading and writing. Scientists around the world are asking what this new oxygen of constant connectedness does to our brains. telling moment at SXSW involved the question of crowdsourcing. Lukas Biewald, founder and chief executive of CrowdFlower, was invited to tell his company’s story. He spoke of the wonders of taking a large task, such as verifying the phone numbers of businesses listed in a directory, and farming it out to ordinary people in their homes through the Internet, He suggested that, while coercion was possible in a physical sweatshop, it could not happen online, The transparency of the Internet, he said, makes it near impossible for firms like his to do harm. ‘Then Jonathan Zittrain, a Harvard law professor, spoke. Mr. Zittrain is a fan of the Internet and has built his career in studying it. But in the SXSW bubble, he seemed to feel compelled to be the grown-up talking of risks and threats. How do we know that crowdsourcing companies pay fairly? On whom in this distributed workforce does liability fall? How do we ensure that children are not exploited? How should we judge Internet Eyes, a British company that pays users to watch CCTV footage and look for crimes? Or the site used to crowdsource the identities of anti-government Cs 06/09/2011 18:44Reality Crashes the Technocrats' Party - NYTimes.com ‘np://www mimes. conv201 1/03/26/us/26itt-currents26.hinl?pa.. demonstrators in Iran? ‘These are moral questions, not algorithmic ones. Amid the dancing and feasting and networking at SXSW, they drizzled like rain on the parade. Join an online conversation at http://anand.ly | 3sur3 6/09/2011 18:44Short Essay (20 points) Read the article “Crashing the party for technocrats” and choose. ONE essay question. Please write clearly on every second line, Work that is too difficult to read cannot be graded. 1. Is“crowd-sourcing” a moral problem? Why / why not? 2. Would you like to attend SxSW? Why /why not?Soe TTT TTT TTT