There is difference between starting a credible business (not another Zynga or Posterous ) and starting a rock band.
Good busineses require a lot of knowledge about engineering and world in general. Everyone here recommending dropping out of college is clearly delusional. What the fuck a freshman knows, even if a student is computer genius, college is essential to learn about how world works. To all the folks who are commenting like stupid about how they learnt nothing from college, I suggest them to find few people who couldn't go to college and talk to them.
And Oh btw Steve Jobs dropped out because he didnt have money and Zukerberg studied at Exter and Harvard, similar with Bill Gates. When they both dropped out, they had good connections as well as parents capable of bank rolling them.
If you are a an 18 year of HTML CSS RUBY PHP educated kid, please dont listen to this crap. Go to a good school and get a degree in engineering and minor in business or economics.
Given that the topic is legislative machinations about (research) funding and the diversion of such funding, it would seem to be well within his formal education on the subjects.
If you look at his list of publications you'll see they probably assume the science and technology (and he does have a CS undergraduate degree) and focus on appropriate stuff beyond that.
And all that said, you don't have to be too familiar with the science and engineering that Drexler has proposed to know when someone is misrepresenting it as grossly as Locklin. Just like anyone with a basic understanding of chemistry and Drexler's writings could tell that Smalley's "fat fingers" (emphasis on plural) was a strawman, since at that time Drexler had never proposed multiple "fingers" for just the reason Smally pointed out (not enough room for them to fit; qualification because I don't know anything about the current DNA approaches that are exciting a lot of people).
Good busineses require a lot of knowledge about engineering and world in general. Everyone here recommending dropping out of college is clearly delusional. What the fuck a freshman knows, even if a student is computer genius, college is essential to learn about how world works. To all the folks who are commenting like stupid about how they learnt nothing from college, I suggest them to find few people who couldn't go to college and talk to them.
And Oh btw Steve Jobs dropped out because he didnt have money and Zukerberg studied at Exter and Harvard, similar with Bill Gates. When they both dropped out, they had good connections as well as parents capable of bank rolling them.
If you are a an 18 year of HTML CSS RUBY PHP educated kid, please dont listen to this crap. Go to a good school and get a degree in engineering and minor in business or economics.