Phil and Scott discuss the recent Telecosm 2008 conference, where attendees debated, discussed, decoded and deciphered the digital and communications technologies and policies vital to the build-out of the global Internet infrastructure, the next phase of which is estimated to entail total new investments of some $137 billion worldwide by 2010. Hosts George Gilder, Steve Forbes, and Forbes publisher, Rich Karlgaard, were joined by the world's leading scientists, engineers, technology executives, entrepreneurs and public policy decision makers to promote investment in innovation.
They also talk about a number of other topics, including Google's Android project and PlateSpin, a company that specializes in server consolidation and disaster recovery.
Scott C. Lemon is founder and CTO of Scintilla Communications, Inc. - a SMS/Text Messaging solutions start-up - and founder of HumanXtensions L.L.C. - an Internet R&D company. Scott's recent history in the computer industryinclude being CTO at MediaForge - a next generation viral marketing and web enhancement company, consulting to numerous Utah start-ups, along with being Chief Technologist at SCO, Chief Strategist at Vultus, and holding numerous positions during his four tours of duty at Novell. Scott's expertise ranges from computer and wireless hardware technologies, to networking and distributed software applications. As a futurist studying the patterns of evolution, his past experiences in operating systems - CP/M, DOS, Windows, OS/2, NetWare, UNIX, Linux and others - is allowing him to explore the newlevels of abstractions provided by the Internet.
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