Google is doing science on their own, and with different priorities from the scientific community because they have the money. Their cost-benefit analysis is completely different from that of...
Google is doing science on their own, and with different priorities from the scientific community because they have the money. Their cost-benefit analysis is completely different from that of scientists, who have to work with the grants available. I look for more of this activity from the moneyed corporations. Or: What's the point of having a nearly trillion dollar company if you can't take over the world?
That's it, @DonQuixote. You and I are mortal enemies now. Sleep soundly on your million thread count sheets in your mansion-the-size-of-zimbabwe. Ride safely your diamond horses clad in golden...
What's the point of having a nearly trillion dollar company if you can't take over the world
That's it, @DonQuixote. You and I are mortal enemies now. Sleep soundly on your million thread count sheets in your mansion-the-size-of-zimbabwe. Ride safely your diamond horses clad in golden vestments (you, not the horses, but also they are clad in gold). Know only that every passing moment I will spend yearning for, plotting, and agonizing over your inevitable demise at my hand.
Live true and live full, because neither of us will be living long.
I'm getting a bit of a Bell Labs vibe from this. If the big G can produce a fraction of the science that Bell Labs did throughout the 20th century it will be a very good thing for humanity. Not...
I'm getting a bit of a Bell Labs vibe from this. If the big G can produce a fraction of the science that Bell Labs did throughout the 20th century it will be a very good thing for humanity. Not nearly enough scientists are given the freedom to take whatever path the results take them as funding almost always has specific goals attached these days. Hopefully goog is trying to carry that torch and this cold fusion research is a part of it.
I really, really wish they wouldn't. I don't want them to succeed and then not only do they have all my personal data but they ALSO control how power is distributed? To be alarmist: At what point...
I really, really wish they wouldn't. I don't want them to succeed and then not only do they have all my personal data but they ALSO control how power is distributed?
To be alarmist: At what point do we just hand the keys of governance over to Google?
Once the cat's out of the bag on something that big, there's no way a single organisation (state or private) would be able to keep a monopoly on it. They'd have the advantage of a head start, and...
Once the cat's out of the bag on something that big, there's no way a single organisation (state or private) would be able to keep a monopoly on it. They'd have the advantage of a head start, and probably a staggering amount of patent licensing income once the inevitable litigation was settled, but they wouldn't have control.
Your words are kind and soft to my eyes, Gregory, but they do little to dull this ACHING PIT OF WANTON FEAR WITHIN MY CORE. You're prolly right, tho, tbh. E - Ears->Eyes because I passed...
Your words are kind and soft to my eyes, Gregory, but they do little to dull this ACHING PIT OF WANTON FEAR WITHIN MY CORE.
You're prolly right, tho, tbh.
E - Ears->Eyes because I passed kindergarten and know my five basic senses.
At the point they hold the military. People forget that the entire world still (and will always) function on a right of might basis. Everything else is just salad dressing on the lettuce leaves of...
At what point do we just hand the keys of governance over to Google?
At the point they hold the military. People forget that the entire world still (and will always) function on a right of might basis. Everything else is just salad dressing on the lettuce leaves of military power.
Google is doing science on their own, and with different priorities from the scientific community because they have the money. Their cost-benefit analysis is completely different from that of scientists, who have to work with the grants available. I look for more of this activity from the moneyed corporations. Or: What's the point of having a nearly trillion dollar company if you can't take over the world?
That's it, @DonQuixote. You and I are mortal enemies now. Sleep soundly on your million thread count sheets in your mansion-the-size-of-zimbabwe. Ride safely your diamond horses clad in golden vestments (you, not the horses, but also they are clad in gold). Know only that every passing moment I will spend yearning for, plotting, and agonizing over your inevitable demise at my hand.
Live true and live full, because neither of us will be living long.
Also just to be clear I'm fooling around. @DonQuixote is cool, I would never want to hurt them. Who else would defend us from the windmills?
Windmills are scary, but they make cold fusion irrelevant.
You would be worthy. See The Painter of Battles by Arturo Perez-Reverte.
I'm getting a bit of a Bell Labs vibe from this. If the big G can produce a fraction of the science that Bell Labs did throughout the 20th century it will be a very good thing for humanity. Not nearly enough scientists are given the freedom to take whatever path the results take them as funding almost always has specific goals attached these days. Hopefully goog is trying to carry that torch and this cold fusion research is a part of it.
I really, really wish they wouldn't. I don't want them to succeed and then not only do they have all my personal data but they ALSO control how power is distributed?
To be alarmist: At what point do we just hand the keys of governance over to Google?
Once the cat's out of the bag on something that big, there's no way a single organisation (state or private) would be able to keep a monopoly on it. They'd have the advantage of a head start, and probably a staggering amount of patent licensing income once the inevitable litigation was settled, but they wouldn't have control.
Your words are kind and soft to my eyes, Gregory, but they do little to dull this ACHING PIT OF WANTON FEAR WITHIN MY CORE.
You're prolly right, tho, tbh.
E - Ears->Eyes because I passed kindergarten and know my five basic senses.
At the point they hold the military. People forget that the entire world still (and will always) function on a right of might basis. Everything else is just salad dressing on the lettuce leaves of military power.
Eh,its going to be just another project they abandon in a few years. No need to worry over it.