What if Max Zoran Succeeded? Living without Silicon Valley

Presented at Notacon 9 (2012), April 14, 2012, 11 a.m. (60 minutes).

If Max Zoran succeeded in "A View to a Kill" and flooded Silicon Valley, what would we do in the aftermath? Just how much of the knowledge and experience responsible for our modern world is locked within a few companies in California? What if some of our favourite tech companies decided to turn evil? What about rebuilding after the inevitable robot-triggered apocalypse? Just how "open" is the Arduino, really? A look at what could happen if the entities responsible for our modern world decided to turn evil or fall off the face of the Earth and left only some talented hackers to pick up the pieces.


Presenters:

  • movax
    movax is an electrical engineer at a R&D company where he works with the latest and greatest technology coming out of Silicon Valley. He contributes actively to open-source software/hardware in his spare time, and loves sharing his projects and knowledge with local hackerspaces. In spare time, he's in the gym or playing with lasers.

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