Floyd founded Efficient in 1993 with the idea of using asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), an industrial-strength packet technology, to route data around local area networks.
Calmer heads are already working on the details of a better proposal: a new route, improved technology and perhaps cleaner oil.
In the early 1980s, writer Tom Wolfe predicted that Silicon Valley would usually beat Boston's Route 128 in technology showdowns because Silicon Valley culture elevated the engineer and entrepreneur to higher social status.
Many CTO and CIO are going the route of providing a technology allowance to employees.
He was not being officially monitored by Guinness but said he hoped the technology he used to record his route on his website would help to claim the record.
In New Hampshire, the most rapidly growing group of independents are highly-educated professionals (many of them refugees from Massachusetts and its taxes) who work in the technology corridor that includes Nashua and Route 128.
Other ideas for development include using mobile phone technology to allow residents to find the quietest route into the city centre or the hospital Accident and Emergency unit with the shortest waiting time.
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Integrated technology platforms that listen, monitor, identify, route, record and measure.
Therein lies the origin of university science departments, regional agglomerations such as Silicon Valley and Route 128, and mega-laboratories at leading high-technology firms including Merck, Microsoft and Monsanto.
Google has taken a similar route and announced plans to test its implementation of the Open ID technology.
Grand plans for European-style double-decker trains were rejected as impractical, as were schemes for a high-speed rail route (run, in the wildest of dreams, on magnetic-levitation technology) connecting London to the north.
Advocates of self-driving cars also say the technology could help reduce carbon-dioxide emissions, in part by automatically choosing the most efficient route to a destination.
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