MrSolitaire

With data analytics becoming bigger everyday, and our gov becoming more tech savvy by the minute, do you think an un-official credit system will eventually make its way into the hands of the intelligence community for its populace? (We already sort of have this with the clearance system etc, but I mean for those who are uncleared as well)

That is not too far off from my thoughts, and certainly an admirable use of the technology. I was thinking more of utilizing that same technology to assess risk associated with certain social/econ/cultural demographics to have more ready access to personal profiles of the public. I mean the police already utilize Facebook etc to find clues as its an effective means to find evidence and build relationships, doesn't seem like too far of a stretch to start building risk profiles in en-masse by all the APIs etc out there.

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I like the more optimistic view a lot more though =D. Thanks for the response.

Tom,

I'm glad to see such a thing exists. I live in the US and am one of the fortunate (and extremely lucky people) to manage an IT career without a college degree. If there were schools here that went with your mentality I would of signed up for sure.

I'm a SQL Server DBA/BI DEV now after dragging myself from being a password reset robot to an SA etc.

Question: Say you woke up tomorrow, and all of the items and deals you succeeded with vanished. Do you feel the market for angel investors and tech start ups are better or worse than they were previously?