startups

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304371504577406142515388550.html?mod=WSJ_article_comments#articleTabs%3Darticle

a good article about what the real tech start up industry should be about...not semi-useful websites that produce nothing real like facebook, but companies that are looking to solve real problems in energy, manufacturing, transportation, etc...that is why google is a real "tech" company...some think they're just a search engine company, but they do real research in robotics, automation, and whatever else they're cooking up in google x...imagine how useful a self-driving car would be to a blind or elderly person...space x is another great example of a real tech start up (http://www.spacex.com/)...started by the guy who made pay pal...i bet nasa is super pleased with the results with dragon's successful mission since the budget for the space program got cut...i don't want to single out facebook too much, because they still do some interesting things with their data center design and their open compute project (http://opencompute.org/)...however, it is a necessary byproduct of the need to have a website for close to a billion people...i think it is a great idea for them publish their research and design of their data centers for everyone to study and build upon, which is completely the opposite of the super secret policy that just about all other tech companies adopt...if the US wants to remain a leader, then they have to go back to real science, engineering, and R&D and move away from finance related industries and internet start-ups that make nothing