Last week Infoworld reported on a reunion of more than 1,000 former employees of Sun Microsystems including all four founders of the company — Andreas Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Scott McNealy, and Bill Joy — at just their second reunion since the 2010 Oracle acquisition. Prior to the formal festivities, the company founders met with a small group of press persons. Pondering…
Tag: emergence
Evolution doesn’t proceed in a straight line
If you go by cartoons and T-shirts, you might think evolution proceeds as an orderly march toward a preordained finish line. But evolution has no endpoint in mind. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/evolution-not-straight-line…
When did humans start altering Earth?
The ArchaeoGlobe Project assessed knowledge on human land use over the past 10,000 years, through the contributions of more than 200 archaeologists. It concluded that, by 3,000 years ago, most of Earth was already transformed by hunter-gatherers, farmers and pastoralists. Source: https://earthsky.org/human-world/when-humans-start-altering-planet-earth-anthropocene…
The Key to Life’s Emergence? Bubbles, New Study Argues
They just want to create order in this chaotic world. Source: https://www.livescience.com/66105-bubbles-early-life.html
FedEx Reduces Amazon Ties as Retailer Flexes Delivery Muscles
FedEx said it wouldn’t renew its U.S. air-delivery contract with Amazon.com, paring a key customer relationship as the largest online retailer deepens its foray into freight transportation. From a report: The delivery giant will instead focus on “serving the broader e-commerce market” with U.S. package volume from online shopping expected to double by 2026, according to a FedEx statement Friday. The…