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Propose a question for Tim O'Reilly

6 points by philsalesses ↗ HN
I'm meeting Tim O'Reilly tomorrow to talk about big data and the future. I'll ask him any good questions you have and after his talk with Joi Ito, I'll post the answers.

http://www.media.mit.edu/events/2012/04/18/media-lab-conversations-series-tim-oreilly

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samstave
Tim: In what way can O'Reilly Publishing benefit from or emulate Khan Academy to disseminate the educational materials in your books. Further, have you thought of putting together a curriculum using the Khan Academy model teaching your materials to enable upcoming generations of developers/entrepreneurs?

Do you think programming should be a basic element in education i.e. reading, writing, arithmetic, programming.

pasbesoin
My suggestions (of greater or lesser value), although they don't pertain to big data:

Ask him about remaining a private concern. I know this was a big, um, "concern" for him (stay private vs. go public), and his perspective on the matter might be very interesting.

Also, looking in from the outside and rather superficially, his personal focus vis à vis O'Reilly Publishing seems to have shifted more to the conferences. Is this an accurate perception?

More recently, I've encountered a few less than satisfying titles in the O'Reilly lineup, particularly around the latter half or the end of the last decade. Has this been noted within the organization, and if so, are they addressing it?

As for big data, his son in law is in renewable energy. What has Tim been learning from and about that sector WRT data collection, analysis, and application?