Tech PolicyTechnology and policy viewpoints from some current and past MIT graduate studentsIreland Bans the Incandescent Lightbulb- December 11, 2007 from the EE Times. LONDON - Ireland is to ban the traditional lightbulb with householders forced to switch to new long-life low-energy bulbs. Legislation is being introduced to ban the sale of the normal incandescent lightbulb from January, 2009 so as the normal lightbulb breaks, householders will have to replace them with the more environmentally friendly long-life bulb which uses...http://techpolicy.typepad.com/tpp/2007/12/ireland-bans-th.html Google your DNA for $999. 23andMe- December 6, 2007 23andMe will decode your DNA for $999. Spit in a cup, send it in, and a month later they send you a genetic profile in the mail. You'll learn, is your daddy really your daddy. Are you susptible to any terrible genetic diseases, do you have what it takes to be an Olympic sprinter or, even better... Are you more...http://techpolicy.typepad.com/tpp/2007/12/google-your-dna.html Clean Technology Venture Capital Heaing Up- December 1, 2007 Via TechCrunch. To me, the fact that clean energy technology is getting lots of venture capital money is THE best sign for it taking off mainstream. Whats amazing to me from the post below is this: Clean Tech as a Percentage of Total Venture Capital 2005: 0.2 percent 2006: 6.7 percent 2007: 10 percent Those are some very big numbers....http://techpolicy.typepad.com/tpp/2007/11/clean-technolog.html |