Next Big Future: Google Moonshots : Radical Life Extension, Robotic...: Google or the Google Founders are making well funded attempts to conquer big technological challenges. Success in these major endeavors will...
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Here's a private company doing "moonshots". They are beginning to dwarf DARPA, which is supposed to be where all the sophisticated new stuff came from ( or so I thought). DARPA is a government agency, for crying out loud.
Robotic cars are not so good. I wish they wouldn't do that. Sergei Brin, founder of Google, says that they will be available in five years. Not good.
They are interested in renewable energy too. I think that is way over hyped. Renewable energy is like Don Quixote fighting the windmill. Too much of our culture is becoming that way. We need to be more sensible.
Here's another one ( NOT Google ) that is troubling to me --- commercial anti-matter. Anti-matter is very dangerous stuff. You could annihilate a city with a small amount of this stuff. What do they propose to do with this stuff?
Hmm. Seems that everything in the future is not going to be great, there's stuff that could lead to some really bad outcomes.
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