I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.

The big success stories - Facebook, Zynga and Twitter - are leading to investing in ideas on a napkin, because no one wants to miss out on the next big thing.

I'm going to start a lot of companies. These are not sham companies. These are great businesses.

The West coast money and the East coast money, in an ever-increasing manner, is finding its way to Chicago.

GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.

We need to accept that the commandments of God aren't just a long list of good ideas. They aren't 'life hacks' from an Internet blog or motivational quotes from a Pinterest board.

Corporations have been killing the risk-taking and exploration that makes software great. They have tried to rip the soul out of development.

As a digital technology writer, I have had more than one former student and colleague tell me about digital switchers they have serviced through which calls and data are diverted to government servers or the big data algorithms they've written to be used on our e-mails by intelligence agencies.