Om Malik, in his GigaOM blog, has an interesting article on technology start-ups in Switzerland near Zurich. He claims that one of the reasons that companies from Switzerland are successful on a global scale is that they come from a small country with four languages, which naturally forces them to think multilingual and outside of their own country. An interesting observation.
About Willem
Willem Boersma was trained as a chemical engineer, works in software development and is interested in new technologies. He believes that the Dow Jones saw three periods of more or less continuous rise in the 20th century. From 1900-1920 because of developments in transportation. From 1945-1965 because of developments in productivity. And from 1985-2000 because of developments in information technology. He is convinced that the next rise will start somewhere around 2015 and will be due to developments in sustainable technology. Until that happens, he is looking for evidence of the opposite.
