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  • Guideposts: Against the Dying of the Light, and Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED

    02/21/2024 5:52:39 PM PST · by ChessExpert · 19 replies
    Gilder Report and Veritasium ^ | 2/21/24 | George Gilder and Derek Muller
    Gilder Guideposts: Cacophonous are the voices decrying the implosion of “the U.S. Innovation Ecosystem,” as the Harvard Business Review puts it. Do not hope, the voices warn, to see in our future anything like the miraculous progress of the last two centuries, or even the last 50 years. It’s done. Tighten your belts. Supporting the doomsters are dozens of academic studies arguing that “big research,” whether at our great corporations or our universities, yields increasingly diminishing returns. Making headlines recently was a Nature study concluding, “We find that papers and patents are increasingly less likely to break with the past...
  • D.C. to Silicon Valley: Drop Dead - Federal officials seem intent on hobbling American innovation.

    01/22/2024 6:10:27 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 6 replies
    City Journal ^ | 18 Jan, 2024 | Danny Crichton
    For venture capitalists and startup entrepreneurs, 2023 was a year dedicated to the destructive phase of Joseph Schumpeter’s notion of creative destruction. Silicon Valley Bank collapsed in the second-largest bank failure in American history, 400,000 tech jobs were eliminated in what Wired dubbed “The Great Tech Layoffs,” and dozens of high-potential startups transformed from unicorns into “zombies.” Destruction is a necessary ingredient to creativity. Not all ideas are good, and not all firms can make it. Economic dynamism is predicated not just on the rapid generation and growth of winning startups, but also on the implosion of failed companies, which...
  • 20 Ways Oldsmobile Revolutionized the Car Industry

    09/18/2023 11:58:22 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 70 replies
    www.autoevolution.com ^ | 17 Sep 2023, 08:02 UTC | • By: Ciprian Florea
    Originally established as Olds Motor Vehicle Company by Ransom E. Olds in 1897, Oldsmobile was, for most of its existence, GM's entry-level premium brand. Purchased by General Motors in 1908, Oldsmobile slotted above Chevrolet and Pontiac and below Buick and Cadillac. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The division was noted for several innovative technologies and designs. It was the first automaker to offer a fully automatic transmission, it produced the fastest cars of the early 1950s thanks to the Rocket V8 engine and built the world's first turbocharged production car in the 1960s. Oldsmobile became one of America's best-selling brands in the 1970s...
  • Innovation in science has slowed to a crawl

    01/06/2023 3:23:27 PM PST · by DeweyCA · 51 replies
    Hotair.com ^ | 1-6-23 | David Strom
    This is no surprise to me, and relates to the piece I started the day with: the rate at which scientists produce groundbreaking research has slowed dramatically in recent years. This phenomenon has been quietly discussed among both scientists and social science researchers in recent years, and there has been a great deal of speculation about the reasons for the decline. To me, the reasons are pretty obvious. First, the data. Carlson School of Management Associate Professor Russell Funk, doctoral student Michael Park and Professor Erin Leahey of the University of Arizona collaborated in a project to analyze the rate...
  • The Greatest Inventions In The Past 1000 Years

    09/04/2022 9:39:15 AM PDT · by gunsequalfreedom · 138 replies
    Dept of History Ohio State ^ | January 21, 2022 | Larry Gormley
    While the Internet and the World Wide Web have certainly impacted the lives of many millions of people it is certainly not the greatest invention of the past millennium, in fact it might not even make the the top ten.
  • Could Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Be a Serious Alternative to Batteries? (goodbye expensive lithium)

    06/09/2022 3:38:58 AM PDT · by dennisw · 74 replies
    Popular Mechanics ^ | APR 28, 2022 | ERIC TEGLER
    This medium releases 99.99 percent pure hydrogen, which could power electrical grids, hydrogen fuel cells, cars, or hydrogen-injected diesel trucks. Former computer-chip manufacturing engineer Paul Smith founded Plasma Kinetics in 2008. The Arizona-​based startup has developed “solid-state” hydrogen storage, essentially transferring the gas onto a proprietary film wound in many layers inside a canister. He says the tech could challenge batteries in both efficiency and environmental friendliness. When unspooled and run past a laser—the film moves from one reel to another, like movie film through a projector—the solid-state storage medium releases 99.99 percent pure hydrogen, which could power electrical grids,...
  • Biden pushes for innovation bill to help ‘urgently’ address inflation

    04/14/2022 3:17:18 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 36 replies
    The hill ^ | 04/13/2022 | Brett Samuels
    President Biden on Thursday acknowledged the urgent need to lower costs for Americans, calling on Congress to pass a bipartisan innovation bill as one way to do so. Biden, speaking at North Carolina A&T University, noted the Labor Department’s inflation report that came out earlier this week showed prices continued to rise over the last month as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine spiked the cost of oil and other goods.
  • The Church Fathers Were Trads

    04/08/2022 7:53:01 AM PDT · by Antoninus · 7 replies
    Gloria Romanorum ^ | April 8, 2022 | Florentius
    When reading the Ecclesiastical History of Hermias Sozomen—a work written immediately before the Council of Chalcedon when the universal Church was roiled by a variety of heresies—one picks up the venerable author’s animus for innovation. Indeed, Book IV, Chapter 27 begins with the following passage: When the spirit of innovation becomes regarded with popular favor, it is scarcely possible to arrest its progress. Inflated as it always is with arrogance, it contemns the institutions of the Fathers, and enacts laws of its own. It even despises the theological doctrines of antiquity, and seeks out zealously a new form of religion...
  • 90% of Everything Is . . . Take a Guess

    01/24/2022 11:21:43 AM PST · by RicocheT · 30 replies
    WSJ Opinion ^ | Jan. 23, 2022 | Andy Kessler
    It used to be that 90% of the time, you accessed stuff only on your computer’s local network. Then in 1993 at the University of Illinois, Marc Andreessen developed Mosaic, the first internet browser, which allowed users to wander around the World Wide Web 90% of the time. He moved to Silicon Valley and founded Netscape. Mr. Andreessen is now a general partner at a top-decile venture-capital firm, better than 90% of its peers. Andreessen Horowitz recently raised $9 billion in new funds.
  • The 6 killer apps of prosperity TED Talk

    07/19/2021 4:29:30 PM PDT · by tbw2 · 23 replies
    TED Talk ^ | 2011 | Niall Ferguson
    We know that most of that wealth was made after the year 1800. And we know that most of it is currently owned by people we might call Westerners: Europeans, North Americans, Australasians. 19 percent of the world's population today, Westerners own two-thirds of its wealth. Economic historians call this "The Great Divergence." And this slide here is the best simplification of the Great Divergence story I can offer you. It's basically two ratios of per capita GDP, per capita gross domestic product, so average income. One, the red line, is the ratio of British to Indian per capita income....
  • Price Controls vs. Innovation

    05/20/2021 9:04:14 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 3 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | May 20, 2021 | David Williams
    As a gesture of goodwill, President Biden recently announced that the U.S. will be shipping 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to other countries. This altruistic policy not only puts American values on full display but is also a testament to the strength of American pharmaceutical innovation. It is no coincidence that the U.S. has robust intellectual property (IP) protections and was the first out of the gate to have a COVID-19 vaccine ready. Unfortunately, these strong IP safeguards may be on the chopping block. The Biden administration’s recent decision to support an IP protections waiver for COVID-19 drugs is a...
  • The Fight Against Big Tech - A Plan for Action

    01/17/2021 12:40:38 PM PST · by Kaslin · 13 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 17, 2021 | Craig Caruana
    Anger against big tech reached a tipping point during the 2020 Election, as conservative ideas were censored and stories critical of Democrats suppressed. With the ongoing purge of social media accounts, corporations are enforcing a free speech restriction that terrifies not only conservatives but free speech advocates across the political spectrum. The question now is how do we translate anger into tangible actions that will bring about change? To fight big tech over the long-term, we need a comprehensive strategy that marshals the resources of investors and entrepreneurs, donors, elected officials and policy experts. Business leaders can foster an entrepreneurial...
  • A Capitalist Defense of Big Pharma

    11/15/2020 9:50:37 AM PST · by WTanner1776 · 4 replies
    Gen Z Conservative ^ | 11/14/2020 | PF Whalen
    Capitalism, and the American pharmaceutical industry that thrives under it, saves lives. With the possible exception of “Big Oil,” there is no industry more demonized in America than the pharmaceutical industry. In some cases, the disdain for “Big Pharma” is both understandable and justified—as with the “commercial triumph” but “public health tragedy” surrounding the sale and regulation of OxyContin. But we are now on the precipice of one of those very pharmaceutical companies, Pfizer Inc., being granted permission by the FDA to distribute a COVID-19 vaccine, in the hopes of eradicating a disease that has killed almost 1.3 million worldwide...
  • Why China Won’t Win the Race for Artificial Intelligence Dominance: Authoritarians Love Data, but Innovation Matters More

    06/19/2020 7:23:22 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 9 replies
    Foreign Affairs ^ | 06/19/2020 | By Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne
    Once upon a time, Japan was widely expected to eclipse the United States as the technological leader of the world. In 1988, the New York Times reporter David Sanger described a group of U.S. computer science experts, meeting to discuss Japan’s technological progress. When the group assessed the new generation of computers coming out of Japan, Sanger wrote, “any illusions that America had maintained its wide lead evaporated.” Replace “computers” with “artificial intelligence,” and “Japan” with “China,” and the article could have been written today. In AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order, which unsurprisingly became an...
  • New Brunswick: First Canadian Province to Embrace Early Hydroxychloroquine-Based Treatment!

    05/09/2020 9:29:28 AM PDT · by Candor7 · 22 replies
    Covexit ^ | April 2, 2020 | unatributed
    New Brunswick is the first Canadian Province to adopt the therapeutic approach of the Marseille University Hospital and Professor Didier Raoult. Dr Gabriel Girouard, microbiologist and infectiologist at the Dr-Georges-L.-Dumont University Hospital in Moncton, was interviewed by Journalist Sophie Durocher. The interview in French covers all the key elements of the New Brunswick approach, which focuses on early treatment of the disease, as recommended by Professor Raoult and his team. An interesting feature of the New-Brunswick approach is that patients will be monitored via tele-medicine. So only cases that require it will be hospitalized. Dr Girouard explains how several committees,...
  • Imagining the Future of America

    04/02/2020 10:28:17 AM PDT · by babylon_times · 5 replies
    Medium ^ | March 23, 2020 | Joel Northrup
    In Milton’s Paradise Lost, Satan famously says “the mind is its own place and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven”. Satan is in Hell while he makes this rousing speech to his fellow fallen angels. Surrounded by darkness and pain, he is urging himself and those listening to ignore their reality. Satan would have it that you and I were that blind as well. And we have been. For years, Americans have lived in a country that has grown stagnate. We are often told that innovation is growing “exponentially” while “Moore’s Law” is touted...
  • The Ride Sharing War Has Officially Begun

    03/03/2020 7:40:24 AM PST · by bananaman22 · 7 replies
    Oilprice.com ^ | 03-03-2020 | James
    Uber transformed transportation when it spent a fortune turning ride-sharing into a mainstream mode of transportation. But the 2.0 version of ride-sharing is where the real disruption begins. It fixes everything that’s wrong and latches onto a mega-trend the giants shouldn’t have ignored: ethical investing. This is where drivers get a boost, riders get a choice, and CO2 goes neutral.
  • What's At Stake in the Race for 5G Dominance

    01/14/2020 3:02:11 PM PST · by Kaslin · 32 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | January 14, 2020 | James Edwards
    The United States and China are racing for dominance in 5G wireless connectivity. The R&D, the inventions, the technological standards and the commercial products developed and deployed in the coming months and years will determine whose inventions bring the world the next generation of wireless technology. Two companies lead in foundational research and development of 5G. Fortunately for the world, U.S.-based Qualcomm has invented and developed superior 5G core technologies. It makes a profound difference which country’s innovations a few key collaborative standards-setting bodies adopt as the foundation of the next-generation wireless infrastructure. 5G won’t be your Mom’s internet. Beyond...
  • The Most Innovative Jobs In The U.S. Are Clustering In A Handful of Cities

    12/10/2019 11:18:21 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 13 replies
    Market Crumbs ^ | 12/10/2019
    The United States has a total area of 3,796,742 square miles. That makes it the third or fourth-largest country in the world by land area, depending if you count overseas territories. So what's the point? Despite its size, the U.S. is facing a dilemma of sorts. According to a new report from The Brookings Institution, regional divergence in the U.S. innovation sector "has reached extreme levels." The innovation sector, composed of 13 of the nation’s highest-tech, highest R&D industries, is vital to the U.S. economy. The innovation sector accounts for 3% of U.S. jobs, but generates 6% of the country’s...
  • Rudy Giuliani says US diplomats were doing the bidding of George Soros in Ukraine... (Vid)

    11/21/2019 10:55:09 PM PST · by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget · 44 replies
    The Blaze ^ | November 20, 2019 | Carlos Garcia
    Rudy Giuliani says US diplomats were doing the bidding of George Soros in Ukraine, in interview with Glenn Beck Rudy Giuliani told Glenn Beck during an exclusive interview that U.S. diplomats were doing the bidding of billionaire philanthropist George Soros in Ukraine in a "massive pay-for-play" scheme that included falsifying evidence against President Donald Trump. Giuliani, the president's personal attorney, spoke to Beck on his program Wednesday about the claims being made against him by Democrats in their ongoing impeachment inquiry. "The anti-corruption bureau is a contradiction," said Giuliani about the bureau set up in Ukraine to root out corruption....