Can Bob Metcalfe do for energy what he did for computer networking?
By adamg - 12/26/09 - 10:44 am
The father of Ethernet is now a clean-tech venture capitalist - who thinks the answer is to find energy sources abundant enough to be "squanderable," Mass. High Tech reports:
... "When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail," he said. "I'm a networking guy so everything looks like a network to me."
Metcalfe believes the lessons learned building the Internet can be applied to the world's energy problems. Hence the controversial stance on consumption.
Comments
Lessee, predicted
By anon (not verified) - 12/31/09 - 3:50 pm
Bob Metcalfe is great at a lot of things, but predictions, well, not perfect...
Yes, but give him credit for one thing
By adamg - 12/31/09 - 4:07 pm
When his Internet-collapse prediction failed to come true, he literally ate his words - a copy of his column that had been run through a blender (thus presaging Will It Blend?).