It is a point so obvious it doesn’t often get mentioned: there is no central authority controlling what technologies get developed, who does it, and for what purpose; technology is an orchestra with no conductor. Yet this single fact could end up being the most significant of the twenty -first century.

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Technological rivalry is a geopolitical reality.

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Technology is pushed on by all too rudimental and fundamentally human drivers. From curiosity to crises, fortune to fear, at its heart technology emerges to fill human needs. If people have powerful reasons to build and use it, it will get built and used.

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There is no obvious reason why a single operator, with enough wherewithal, could not control a swarm of thousand of drones.

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… scientists have been working on a method known as inertial confinement, which involves compressing pellets of hydrogen-rich material with lasers and heating them to 100 million degrees to create a fleeting fusion reaction.

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Renewable energy will become the largest single source of electricity generation by 2027.

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Energy—expensive and dirty as it often is—is at present a limiter technolgogy’s rate of process. Not for too much longer.

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As with AI. Robotics proved much more difficult in practice than early engineers assumed. The real world is strange, uneven, unexpected, and unstructured environment, exquisitely sensitive to things like pressure: picking up an egg, an apple, a brick, a child, and a bowl of soup all require extraordinary dexterity, sensitivity, strength, and balance. An environment like a kitchen or workshop is messy, filled with dangerous items, oil slick, and multiple different tools and materials. It’s a robot’s nightmare

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