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Some companies are working on next-generation transmission that would eliminate the heat problem and reduce the cost of underground lines significantly.
Bill Gates • How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need
I have no problem with activism, and the efforts of NGOs have made the world better in countless ways. But distorting science to further a cause is inexcusable, particularly with the complicity of those scientists who serve on their advisory boards.
Steven E. Koonin • Unsettled
The bottom line is that small changes in the communication structure can affect decisions.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Paradoxically, the challenge for the entrepreneurs who will create Energy 2.0 is to think small.
Peter Thiel, Blake Masters • Zero to One
Wiener was as worldly as Shannon was reticent. He was well traveled and polyglot, ambitious and socially aware; he took science personally and passionately. His expression of the second law of thermodynamics, for example, was a cry of the heart: We are swimming upstream against a great torrent of disorganization, which tends to reduce everything to
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More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Volatility Swaps
One of these technologies is blockchain. What’s interesting about blockchain is not cryptocurrency. That’s noise, ripples on the surface of the human economy. To be quite honest, it’s not particularly interesting from a scientific point of view, and it’s not going to have a major effect on humanity.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
