Talking Points

Question 1

What about Rochester becoming world class Medical Destination city

Answer 1

What is happening with the Mayo plan for making Rochester into a World class Destination Medical city

Question 2

How is IBM doing

Answer 2

IBM results for last 2 quarters have not been very good. Travel restrictions, layoffs, plant closures (manufacturing moving from Rochester to Mexico)

Question 3

What about Google glasses

Answer 3

Heard about Google glasses ? What are the google glasses – what can you do with them

Question 4

The stock market has recovered and is back to the levels it was at the time of the collapse in 2008

Answer 4

DOW has hit 15000. But jobs have not caught up with the market, unemployment is still high. A lot of the manual work is being done by automation and Robots

Question 5

Mayo clinic was so busy the other day

Answer 5

The parking was full, the Gonda lobby was teeming with people, also the blood work place – it was like India, people everywhere

Question 6

How does Chromecast from Google work

Answer 6

Chromecast?

Question 7

Have you heard about Elon Musk

Answer 7

Inventor of the Tesla car, Space X, Hyperloop for fast travel

Question 8

Amazon will be starting distribution using drones

Answer 8

Within 10 miles radius of a distribution center, within 30 minutes of an order. Pizza delivery to follow?

Question 9

Do you understand what is 3D printing – seems like everything can be created with 3D printing

Answer 9

Cars, guns, — everything!

Question 10

What is the Higgs Boson

Answer 10

Higgs Boson are particles that explain why matter has mass…

Question 11

Cruelty Free meat – meat that is lab grown

Answer 11

They have already created this…

Question 12

Google getting into Home Automation

Answer 12

Google has acquired NEST a thermostat company by ex Apple executives to get into home automation

Question 13

Smart Watch

Answer 13

Have you heard about it – available from Samsung, Sony, Pebble etc. Costs about $250+. Connects with your smart phone with low consumption bluetooth and provides all functions at a glance…

Question 14

Butter is Back!

Answer 14

Apparently 70 studies have shown that there is no co-relation between butter and heart disease. Just eat real food not fake food/processed food. Avoid sugar and refined foods.

Question 15

Apple’s Results

Answer 15

Apple made $75 billion in the last quarter of 2014 and $15 billion of that was profit. Apple’s Q4 revenue is 2 times the entire defense budget of India.

Apple’s annual revenue of $180 billion is 2 times the annual revenue of IBM of about $90 billion

Question 16

Bumrungrad hospital in Bangkok

Answer 16

Its a great 5-star hospital in Thailand catering to 0.5 million international patients each year. You can get a whole panel of services done very cheap, and with great efficiency, in a very short time of a few days. Great option for medical tourism.