Douglas Rushkoff Says Tech Gurus Don’t Want You To Know What They Know
Douglas Rushkoff told The Guardian this week that social media users are a commodity that tech billionaires want to exploit.
Peter Thiel
Breaking News: Fusion Recedes Into Far Future For The 57th Time
Fusion has an amazing future as a source of energy. In space craft beyond the orbit of Jupiter sometime in the next two centuries.
Some Of Vox’s 9 Experts On Billionaire Climate Spending Are Off Base
This article will look at some of the suggested solutions, and look at a few billionaires and how they are actually spending their money, and make some judgments about the experts and their opinions.
Artificial Intelligence More Dangerous Than North Korea, Elon Musk Tweets
We would expect Elon Musk to be a champion of artificial intelligence. After all, it is the cornerstone of the autonomous driving system known as Autopilot that is featured in Tesla automobiles. But he has been warning about the potential dangers of AI since 2014, when he called it the “biggest existential threat” to humanity ever known. How can someone be a champion of new technology he finds so potentially dangerous? Easy — Musk is not constrained by conventional thinking. His ability to see not only both sides of a coin but also the edge and what’s inside is legendary.
Peter Thiel Might Not Like Gawker, But He Loves Energy Storage… And Donald Trump
Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel has been in the news lately, for reasons that have nothing to do with energy storage and much to do with Gawker Media — but he does have an energy storage trick up his sleeve.
Gates & Thiel Are Wrong On Energy, But Thiel Is More Wrong
The major causes of climate change and air pollution are the burning of fossil fuels for electrical generation and transportation. Bill Gates accepts that but thinks that technical solutions don’t exist already and need to be discovered. Thiel doesn’t even accept climate change, but still thinks we need to invest … [continued]
New Compressed Air Storage Deals Fatal Blow To Zombie Lies About Wind And Solar
We don’t expect the wind and solar naysayers to give up any time soon, but new utility-scale energy storage solutions are beginning to come on line, and they will put to rest this whole notion that intermittent energy sources (namely, wind and solar) can’t provide a significant proportion of reliable … [continued]
Entire Cities Could Run on Compressed Air
The company LightSail Energy started out a few years ago with a student’s modest idea for a compressed air scooter, and now it has just raised $37.3 million in private funding to bring utility scale, compressed air energy storage to the market. That’s a big leap not only for the … [continued]
