With the Focus Electric rolling into showrooms, I took a pre-production model on a two-week tech test drive around the San Francisco BayArea last month to experience daily life in the cloud with an electric car.
"I started one of the country's first hip-hop therapy programs, " said Alvarez, who co-founded Beats Rhymes and Life, a nonprofit that provides free counseling sessions to BayArea youth.
This is why Israel leads the world in deeper computing and communications technologies, while the similarly populated San Francisco BayArea can afford to devote its IQ to more lighthearted endeavors, such as smartphones, social networks and life-enhancing medical technologies.