“Consider a future device … in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory.”
The key is software leverage. Catering company on the outside, yet scale is achieved with a small headcount and software for logistics, meal selection, ordering as well as being a true marketplace etc.
Terrapower - the travelling wave nuclear reactor is a product of their work. Bill Gates also invested in this company, and has strong potential to solve for humanity's demand for energy versus other forms of nuclear power. http://terrapower.com/home.aspx
Ron Weiss at MIT and Adam Arkin from Berkeley are working on a textbook which will ship sometime this year. But yes, there is still a first textbook still to appear for this field