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1. economic framework for thinking about technology
2. fiber as economic infrastructure
3. change from PSTN to all IP over fiber
4. business models- domestic and global
5. green IT, mobility, wireless
6. new carrier models
7. community fiber
8. enterprise fiber & NRENs

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The Networked Health Information
Technology Universe

of Dr. Patrick Soon Shiong

National LambdaRail, the most innovative American optical research network, has been taken over by Los Angeles billionaire Patrick Soon Shiong.

The COOK Report was permitted a very brief interview with Robert Peirce, the Manager of Dr. Soon Shiong's financial interests.  We had done a lot of research about the Dr's activities before the late August interview and given the scarcity of information afforded us, we spent a great deal of time executing an open intelligence search of the web. (A month before the interview nd another two months after.) We paint a very detailed picture of the Dr.'s activities especially during the time since the sale of his first company, American Pharmaceutical Partners in 2008, that made him a billionaire.

We conclude that the Dr. is using his immense wealth to build a new health care system in the southern Califronia and Phoenix Airizona area.  While we agree that his policy and technology analysis is highly innovative and logistically sound, we are concerned that, although he makes many stirring speaches, he opperates largely out of sight.  But, as readers will find, out extensive use of the Web enables us to build a very detailed portrait of what he is doing.

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