Comments on: The Long Game

By: jake harrison

jake harrison — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:48:20 +0000

I just discovered this site which covers a lot of cool ground for the T. http://futurembta.com/

I’d also like a serious network of bike paths, maybe even a dedicated, plowed path along each highway.

By: Andy B

Andy B — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:28:45 +0000

Mine’s a mash-up of some of the above:

1) As it stands, Boston is a great physical place with history, ocean and green space galore. Don’t mess with success.

2) Boston is itself a unique mash-up, with a dense combo of clusters in medical, biotech, high tech and academia. Let’s do virtual things that leverage the richness of these combined resources

3) Lastly, who could argue with Noah’s colossus ?!?

By: D

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:27:16 +0000

Have you seen the Koch Institute? Boston has MIT and Harvard and the many other affiliated healthcare/life sciences institutions still powering our high-tech profile and “spirit”. I think Boston is fine. But there is nothing wrong with pushing yourself.

More Greenspace is always nice. Freshly paved roads and initiatives for making boston a green car zone by 2020 would be cool for me. I know people want Big changes; especially entrepreneurs because they are slightly ADD (and I mean that in the best way possible). But Bigger isn’t always better especially if there isn’t a point to the project in the first place.

How about Boston and Cambridge Free WiFi.

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By: Steve Patterson

Steve Patterson — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:32:49 +0000

Boston’s strength is healthcare. We could lose this lead as healthcare becomes less clinician driven during the coming reform. Taking the lead in the reform of delivery of healthcare would provide growth. Because the Massachusetts legislature has created the equivalent of national healthcare on a local scale we have the perfect sandbox to experiment with the needs of the nation.

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By: Noah Bullock

Noah Bullock — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:22:41 +0000

An enclosed, multi-tiered rain forest greenhouse/biodome running the length of the Rose Kennedy Green Way.

No direct effect on technology incubation, certainly, but Boston could use more in the way of ‘really effing cool’ features/attractions.

Alternately: A colossus standing astride the harbor.

By: Ben Sutton

Ben Sutton — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:29:21 +0000

A commitment to becoming one of the first truly ‘green’ cities of the world. This will attract international talent who will desire working towards our sustainable efforts, as well as helping to retain the brilliant students who graduate from our local universities and colleges every year.

Boston is already a hub innovation and where green tech firms meet LEED certified buildings. A grand and widely supported initiative toward sustainability would propel us well into the 21st century as a global leader of innovation.

By: Jules Pieri

Jules Pieri — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:38:41 +0000

I’m not thinking so much about physical space (Boston has many extremely unique virtues on that front), but mindspace. How do we establish Boston as a center for innovation, to attract and retain the best and brightest? Not everyone can visit Boston, or Tokyo, but we have an rich impression, nonetheless. At the end of the day, that impression can be deeply affected by the companies and products that come out of a place. Tokyo: Consumer Electronics. New York: Media, Wall Street. Austin: Software. Minneapolis: HealthCare. Detroit: Cars. I am deeply biased, given the business I work in, but I believe grabbing mindshare for consumer internet innovation is the most efficient and powerful way to do this. Build experiences that people (journalists, students, technologists etc.) really use: Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook shape the current Silicon Valley impressions. We have a sizeable core of interesting consumer internet ventures in Boston to build upon and establish real mindshare. Let’s go!

By: Tim Rowe

Tim Rowe — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:12:15 +0000

Let me propose that we use “brainstorming” ground-rules for this discussion:
– one idea per comment
– no criticism of others’ ideas

This is the best way to get ideas flowing. Later we can ask Xconomy to do a roundup of the ideas presented, and we can debate them.

Lets get the big ideas that are in people’s heads out into the public eye.

If there are none, that will tell us something, won’t it?