Comments on: The tech industry needs global citizens, not nationalism

By: Sarah Xu

Sarah Xu — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 04:21:52 +0000

totally agree with this. but the point is not only the tech industry needs global citizen, but also other fields and sectors, politics, culture, education. we have been talking about globalization and flat world for too long, but seems only trades sector is much more of this. also, how technology should serve itself for better global-citizening, I think this is the real challenge for all those tech innovators. and remember, don’t underestimate the power of emerging markets, there are also brilliant ideas…
like Qifang, such great idea.
Also, there is Students Space, the new new start up that focus on building a platform for global students for knowledge sharing and collaborative learning.

By: nicos (Nicolas Roos)

nicos (Nicolas Roos) — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:42:10 +0000

@boris I was refering to this post http://bit.ly/11Sg0

By: Ernst-Jan Pfauth

Ernst-Jan Pfauth — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:30:52 +0000

Don’t take the bait :-) He’s an actor, and most of the times kidding. Hence the quotation marks around ban.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:17:52 +0000

just a word about the poor guy at 1938media.com

his decision to ban a whole country is obviously childish and unprofessional;

let such the wanabees bark at will, we got better things to do here in France

By: golfgirl

golfgirl — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:56:53 +0000

So few people…such an infinitesimal number…have any idea who Michael Arrington or Loren Feldman or Loic LeMeur are that it really doesn’t matter what any of them say or do. I know Arrington was chosen as one of Time’s most influential people of 2008. Well, Michelle Wie was chosen as one of the Worlds most influential people of 2007. Enough said. No one other than a tiny group of geeks knows the guy. His opinion is largely irrelevant on cultural matters such as which lifestyle is better the American work comes first one or the European Family and human relationships come first. I’m pretty sure even he would admit that, because he’s obviously very intelligent. When he talks about tech what he says carries a ton of weight and that’s why he’s on the Time list. when he talk about european vs us lifestyle choices it’s no more weighty than when Ms. Wie, the teen golf phenom talks about the same subject. (I think Michelle is awesome, by the way).

I’m an American who has traveled around the world and lived in several different countries. I see the appeal of the European lifestyle more family focused less materialist & more frugal… But I always prefered our American way, working really hard and shopping really hard and living an oppulent luxury lifestyle. For the past several months, however I’ve seen increasing evidence that the American ultra driven consumer lifestyle is in fact not sustainable. And in the end what good it that?

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:54:08 +0000

Well, yeah. But I let them assemble tennis shoes while we have dinner. Gotta make some money somewhere…

By: Richard Hemmer

Richard Hemmer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:50:24 +0000

See, we don’t have soft either. I bet you even spend precious business-time with your family instead!

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:47:50 +0000

Well, she is 6. I guess that softened me a bit… :-)

By: Richard Hemmer

Richard Hemmer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:39:44 +0000

This is downright sexist. All a woman has to do is show you her sad face.

We here in Austria don’t take back firings, and that’s exactly why we have the most successful economy in all of Europe!

Austrians rule, Dutch drool!

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:35:10 +0000

Nah, I love Arrington. :-)