Juan Orbea

Without rubber and another kind of tree resin called gutta-percha, it would not have been possible to wire the world. Early telegraph lines were just naked conductors strung from pole to pole, but this worked poorly, especially in wet conditions, so some kind of flexible but durable insulation was needed. After much trial and error, rubber became t... See more

If you add a compounding effect on top of an already large number, it becomes very difficult to predict the size of future outcomes.

However, “autonomous” does not mean “automatic” and, even if it did, smart contracts are not automatic. Smart contracts also obviously are not autonomous because they are unconscious and inert, not spontaneous and self-controlled.

Canva's target market has always been the long-tail of less sophisticated creatives, often people without technical skills or advanced software. For that long-tail, the focus is on creating high quality designs with as little friction as possible. By bringing all of this creative surface area into the same platform they enable long-tail creators to... See more

Those key issues involve substantial solutions to cost material improvements in safety and ongoing maintenance and safe storage. N ext generation nuclear technology, as led by small modular reactors smrs are nuclear fission reactors that are now being designed to take the scale of nuclear plants down significantly and enable innovative features lik... See more