CAJ#15 Silicon Valley - TV Series

Silicon Valley is an American television sitcom that centers on six young men who found a startup company called “Pied Piper” in Silicon Valley.

Richard Hendriks is a typical Nerd. Shy, reclusive, he loves technology and is highly intelligent. He works at a large Internet company called Hooli, while developing a music app called Pied Piper. Hooli executitive Donal Dunn discovers that the app contains a revolutionary data compression algorithm and proposes Richard a $10 million buyout of Pied Piper. The billionaire Peter Gregory, however, offers him a $ 200,000 investment for 5 % ownership in the company. Encouraged by Peter Gergory’s assistant and because of the support of his friends he decides to choose the $200,000 investment and tries to start his own company as the CEO of Pied Piper.

The TV-series that is made to entertain people, one can clearly see the typical life of people in Silicon Valley. There are the super-rich on one side and the nerds on the other. The latter are just like you would assume them to be. Shy, hoodie-sweater-wearing, reclusive, restrained but highly intelligent guys who live together in a house full with computers, game consoles and video games. They do not meet girls or have any other hobbies and therefore they have enough time to spend their days with computer programs and algorithms.

On the other side there are the super-rich people who made their money with investments in start-up companies. They own billions of dollars and do not really care if one of the start-ups they invested in does not work out quite well. They simply invest in an other company.

All in all, it is a very fun series to watch. You get a good impression of how live is in Silicon Valley. You see how the system functions and how super-intelligent and super-rich people work together. Really worth watching :)

click here to watch the trailer

CAJ#14Ethical Issues of SV

Our homework was to talk to a person about our CAJ and think about the ethical issues of our topic. I talked to my brother who studies engineering in Graz and while talking some really interesting future prospects came to our mind.

As my brother studies engineering, he already knew the most basic information about the Silicon Valley. Its location, the famous companies and also the whole concept behind this area. He also knew something about a problem that is called “braindrain” (you can read about this topic in some of my previous posts). What he did not know about, however, is the high autism rate in this area and the problem of gentrification. We set our creativity free and thought about some future prospects of this area.

Here is our current situation and below you can find two different scenarios. My brother and I firmly believe that the future of the SV is either going to be scenario A or B. (All other people I told about the scenarios thought we were crazy, but we still believe we’re right :) )

Issue:

The Silicon Valley is one of the fastest growing areas on Earth. This growth does not only relate to the development of new technologies but also to the geographical and demographical change. More and more high intelligent people move to this area in order to become famous by presenting their ideas for new technologies. As you have already learned from my previous posts, some of these people do indeed have autistic tendencies and that is why they come up with such great ideas (like facebook), simply because they think differently. More and more people from all over the world move their (braindrain) and they all work together. “Normal” people like the average neighborhood girl are expelled from this area as they either cannot afford to live there anymore or they simply do not feel comfortable living there. The result is going to be a village, town, city, country or even continent full with highly intelligent people.

We think the result of the above mentioned scenario is either going to be …

secanio A

A new community of highly intelligent people is developed who do not want to share their technologies and ideas with “stupid” people outside their continent. They use their technologies development flying cars and beaming buses while the rest of the world still uses the old-fashioned technologies like air-polluting automobiles. They use us as slaves which leads to a new version of racism. Racists do not judge other people by color of their skin or origin, they judge other people by their Intelligence Quotient.

OR scenario B

More and more highly intelligent people who have autistic tendencies move to SV, get married with other highly intelligent people with autism and have children. These children are autistic too and although their intelligence is quite helpful, the intelligence of their children cannot be used anymore as a newly advanced type of autism developed is spread and the result is a community of autistic people who cannot communicate with other and cannot use their intelligence that hides somewhere inside them. Therefore intelligent people become extinct and the world’s technologies are not going to develop or improve any longer.

CAJ#13Abstract

 

Technology is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and it has no signs of slowing down anytime soon. With the industry also areas like the Silicon Valley, which is home to many of the world’s largest technology corporations, grow and gain more importance.

The purpose of the Current Affairs Journal is to show the importance of the Silicon Valley for society. Moreover it focuses on the location of the technological heart and which social, geographical and entrepreneurial elements a country needs in order to build an area like the Silicon Valley. The paper, however, does also examine whether an area like the Silicon Valley is better for startups than other places. Precise internet research show that there are several positive aspects of areas like the Silicon Valley. Infrastructure, corporation, the right atmosphere and attitude can hardly be accomplished in other places. This leads to the implication that areas like Europe need to change entrepreneurial habits in order to regain competitiveness.

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Technology is one of the fastest growing industries in the world and it has no signs of slowing down anytime soon. With the industry also areas like the Silicon Valley, which is home to many of the world’s largest technology corporations, grow and gain more importance.

The purpose of the Current Affairs Journal is to show the importance of the Silicon Valley for society. Moreover it focuses on the location of the technological heart and which social, geographical and entrepreneurial elements a country needs in order to build an area like the Silicon Valley. The paper, however, does also examine whether an area like the Silicon Valley is better for startups than other places. Precise internet research show that there are several positive aspects of areas like the Silicon Valley. Infrastructure, corporation, the right atmosphere and attitude can hardly be accomplished in other places which leads to the implication that areas like Europe need to change entrepreneurial habits in order to regain competitiveness.