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...think it's entirely what it says in the book - it's a matter of choice. We've got two possible futures: a really horrible one and a really good one. We're going to run out of oil. It's not a renewable resource. So that will happen. Meanwhile, we are very busy in creating all kinds of new tech that might save us. What will win the race? What will save us? Will it be the wonderful new tech, or will it be the collapse of oil, or will it be the bad environmental conditions that we cause...
...able to make a big enough change by being forced into it? They don't usually. It's not enough to say you have to be good; everybody does that for about a week and then runs back to their old habits. Eventually necessity forces a change. That will happen when oil is so expensive that you can no longer afford to use it to make plastic bags out of it. And instead of that, we will use it for things we really need...
...contrary. Computers didn't invent things like flawed program trading - people did. Program trading simply followed algorithms that people wrote. So while a computer may help make dumb decisions happen faster, I think putting the blame on computers when they've been such a driver of productivity is a mistake. Taking junk mortgages and calling them triple A, that's not a physicist's or a computer scientist's decision, that's somebody who is trying to pitch something...
...device that we have in our lives, and that's a really exciting thing for a company like Intel ... A lot of the content that you watch on TV is proliferating online, so you get to watch whatever you want, when you want to see it. That's already happened in audio, it will happen in video as well ... Mobile phones have evolved into small computers, and the iPhone has changed people's views of what a phone should be ... Your television is going to be connected, as is your set-top box ... Your automobile is going to be connected...
After the embarrassing irregularities of the 2000 vote - hanging chads, anyone? - Congress resolved to ensure that they wouldn't happen again and spent $2 billion on new-generation voting machines. (See pictures of voting machines...