Well said Ion22. Here's another bio of our man Dr. Bob
Are We There Yet? A look at technology and where we expected to be by now.
In 1992, "Dr. Bob" and his team at Sun Microsystems (many of them had come from Apple) embarked on trying to envision the future with the hopes of trying to figure out where technology was headed. Two years later "Starfire" - a Vision of the future was released. Starfire was a look at the world of 2004 (from the vantage point of 1992-1994) and an attempt to create a "video prototype". The team felt that by creating a short video, the user experience of a corporate customer could be better developed. At the time the film was developed and released (1992-1994) there was no common knowledge of the internet or widespread use of email, yet these items are forecast in the film.
Join with Dr. Bob to glance at the future through the past. The film is 25 minutes in length and offers an amusing peek at where we should be by now... Are we there yet?
Dr. Bob Glass' experience includes creating and running engineering teams at major industry players Apple and Xerox, and developing and managing a 150-person engineering team at Sun Microsystems. No stranger to the startup world, he has served as CEO, CTO and VP of R&D, and through his consulting firm eou.com, as engineering development consultant for several new companies. These have included B2B and B2C software firms and hardware developers for aerospace applications.
Dr. Glass is recognized as a leading technical entrepreneur in Silicon Valley and is frequently called upon as an advisor. As one of the leading technologists at Sun, he became one of the main spokespersons for the firm, and is still a much sought-after keynote speaker at conferences around the world, as well as civic organizations such as the Rotary Club.
