Just curious, what happens to the engineers when a project is cancelled at Google? Mass exodus to other projects? Do they get notice? Are they left with weeks of nothing to do while they search for other teams to join?
People are ego driven but they're also profit driven. Industry and academia are paying attention to security now so that's where hackers are going. Capital eats everything.
Existing energy industry is too entrenched in current technology to innovate? Widely publicized nuclear energy disasters prevents popular support? I don't know but this guy seems pretty smart
Rome fell because their economy depended on expansion of the empire and managing a huge empire is hard when you don't have Internet. God bless the Internet.
> They're not building fusion reactors super fast, they're not building things we don't have super fast. They're building things that we were building a hundred years ago…super fast.
It was the Chinese that built the railways here and they were building it the opposite of "super fast".
> I'm in favor of everyone having train stations and freeway systems, it's all good. But the American freeway system got built out starting in the 1930s; it's been a long time since that kind of thing has amazed us.
This is the reason we can't have nice things isn't it. What a waste of time I want 10 minutes of my life back.