Editor Profile - Denny K Miu was the Founder and former CEO of two companies, Gigamon Systems and Integrated Micromachines (now Touchdown Technologies). Denny has extensive experience in developing technology, products and business relationships. He has been a Professor, an engineer, an entrepreneur, a team leader as well as an individual contributor.
Denny is currently the Executive Editor of LoveMyTool.com.
Denny's Note: I have been experimenting with Google Buzz. It is an interesting tool that could have lots of potentials for the LoveMyTool community. For now, it is also a unique forum allowing me to write about things that interest me, but not necessary related to LoveMyTool or StartupForLess. Occasionally, I will re-post a popular item. Hope you enjoy.
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**Google the Evil Genius**
Like other animals, humans started out as hunters and gatherers. For over two million years, we acquired our food and coverings from either hunting down or scavenging animals (large and small) and we supplemented our diets by gathering nuts, berries and eggs in the forest.
Research showed that this was a highly unpredictable and inefficient way of life. It has been said that it took more than a square mile of natural resources to properly feed two people. Since physical strength was key to survival, it also created tremendous inequality between individuals and between sexes (even though as much as 80% of the food was obtained by gathering which was done mainly by women).
Then for the last ten thousand years or so, humans became farmers, growing plants and raising animals. This was obviously a great improvement and came as a result of population growth and also inventions of tools (including fire). Agriculture also brought us much needed stability and predictability (against nature and against adversaries). It even brought us societal harmony (although we had to endure thousands of years of feudalism before the invention of electoral democracy).
And so it is with data.
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