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Category Archives: innovation
Complexity Correlates with GDP and IQ
Average IQ correlates with a nation’s GDP, and GDP correlates with economic and technological complexity. Joseph Tainter’s The Collapse of Complex Societies details how societies grow in complexity as they solve problems that allow them to prosper. But if a … Continue reading
Posted in Complexity, Demographics, Dysgenics, innovation, IQ, Technology
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High Rise Innovation: If You Can Build These Things in India and Detroit, You Can Build Them Anywhere!
This method of constructing high rise buildings does not require large cranes or dangerous high altitude iron work. Once the top level is erected, each subsequent floor is completed on the ground, then raised to fit in its place, like … Continue reading
Posted in innovation, Shelter, Skyscrapers, Technology
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High Speed Internet on the Open Road
If you want high speed internet while living on the road, consider Elon Musk’s new Starlink in-motion offer (see image above). SpaceX gifted a boon (albeit an expensive one) to digital nomads earlier this year when it launched its Starlink … Continue reading
Posted in innovation, Internet, Ukraine
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A Promising Investment in a Bleak Environment
Many investors are having difficulty seeing beyond the economic demolition program being carried out by the US Biden administration*, in order to find potentially profitable investment targets. One sector that seems to stand out is the educational technology sector. Thanks … Continue reading
Posted in Education, innovation, Investments, Knowledge
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You Will Be Assimilated; Resistance is Futile
Whether it is the Borg Collective or a modular cluster of the world’s tallest buildings, integrated modular innovation is the most likely scenario for a massive disruptive shift in world reality. The Broad Group in China has achieved remarkable results … Continue reading
Posted in China, drones, innovation, Military, Technology, Weapons
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The Wheel vs. the Slave: An Ancient Struggle
Before the wheel, slavery was inevitable. After the wheel, it was optional. __ From “The Wisdom of Al Fin” We tend to think that inventing the wheel was item number two on our to-do list after learning to walk upright. … Continue reading
Long Lasting Lithium Batteries that Don’t Explode
2,000 Cycles; Charge from 0 to 100% in 10 Minutes; No Explosions After several charge-discharge cycles, lithium batteries tend to grow “dendrites” that can short-circuit the cell and start fires: There’s a problem with lithium batteries that stems from those … Continue reading
Posted in innovation, Technology, Transportation
Tagged Batteries
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Global Innovation: Foundations and Futures
Turnover is common on the Bloomberg Innovation Index. The 2020 list is no exception, as nations are rising and falling in the rankings across the board. Who Will Lead in Innovation in 2030? China is catching up with the rest … Continue reading
Can Social Justice Build a Better Bridge?
Social Justice Warriors Infiltrate Engineering Schools Engineering education has been infiltrated by a “phalanx of social justice warriors” who are steadily corrupting the field, according to a Michigan State University professor. “They have sought out the soft underbelly of engineering, … Continue reading
Is There a Recipe for Disruptive Innovation?
Singularity University’s Global Startup Program The Singularity University (SU) is Ray Kurzweil’s and Peter Diamandis’ attempt to bring about radical planetary change for the better. The SU’s Global Startup Program is a boot camp and training program for entrepreneurs who … Continue reading
Fusion: Far and Near, Slow and Fast
Politically Correct Fusion by 2060 or Later … ITER’s workers often liken themselves to stonemasons hewing blocks for a cathedral: They may not get to see the fruits of their efforts in their own lifetimes. To the researchers at fusion … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Energy, Future, innovation, Nuclear Fusion
Tagged Fusion Reactor
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Open Source Innovation: From Out of Nowhere
The Disruptive Innovation That Knocks You On Your Ass These types of innovations often come from out of the blue. The more open the society, the more types of financing can be discovered to take a blockbuster innovation from new … Continue reading
Venture Startups and Disruptive Innovations
The election of Donald Trump as US President in November 2016 sent a signal to investors that the Obama government sabotage of business was coming to an end. Following 4 straight quarters of decreasing investment, investors poured a record-breaking $5 … Continue reading
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Is Evil Google Destined for a Mighty Fall?
Stormy Seas for Google and Other Giant Corporations It is not only Google that is facing the peril of capitalism’s “creative destruction,” it is every corporation that thinks it has made it into the safe port of the S&P 500. … Continue reading
Machine Paradox: Master/Slave vs Symbiosis
Over the past 200 years, machines have released large numbers of humans from lifetimes of physical drudgery — and literally from slavery — in the advanced world. But as machines learn to replace more and more human jobs, vocations, and … Continue reading
A World Badly In Need of a Proper Disruption
First Bitcoin, Then Stocks, Then Oil Prices Fall Recent turbulence on global markets has cast a spell of “fear and trembling” over many financial journalists. The financial media is known for its blatant stupidity, making mistakes such as confusing stock … Continue reading
Posted in Creativity, Disruptive Technologies, Economics, Groupthink, innovation, Making Government Unnecessary
Tagged innovation
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Good Elon vs. Bad Russia: The Gap Widens
In “Good Elon, Bad Elon: A Tale of Two Elons,” we looked at Elon Musk’s highly profitable and likely successful trajectory into space (SpaceX) vs. some of his other more questionable and money-bleeding enterprises such as Tesla. As you can … Continue reading
A Fundamental Misunderstanding of Disruptive Innovation
Brian Wang discusses future disruptive technologies as if the disruptors of the past will also be the disruptors of the future: Technological disruptors like Elon Musk, Google and Amazon will force industries and companies to accelerate or die. Companies will … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Google, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, innovation, Technology, Uncategorized
Tagged Green Idiocy, Groupthink, leftist idiocy
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Ugly US Economy Wins “Least Ugly Economy” Beauty Contest
By some measures, the US is neither the most productive economy nor the most innovative per capita. The US government is mired deeply in exponentially expanding debt, and US society is undergoing a demographic decline of a dysgenic nature. And … Continue reading
Posted in Donald Trump, Economics, innovation, Politics
Tagged economics, Groupthink
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Innovation, Productivity, and Enterprise: Wealth of Nations
Innovation Leads to Greater Productivity and Wealth Both innovation in new products and innovation in new processes tend to contribute to higher productivity for both individual firms — large and small — and for nations. “Disruptive innovation” contributes more than … Continue reading
Posted in Demographics, Economics, Europe, innovation, Technology, Wealth of Nations
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Secret to Survival in a World of Corrupt Dysgenic Decline
Four guys are standing on a street corner… an American, a Russian, a Chinese man, and an Israeli… A reporter comes up to the group and says to them: “Excuse me… What’s your opinion on the meat shortage?” The American … Continue reading
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Making Government Unnecessary II : Disruptive Innovations
Alexei Kudrov, a brilliant and honest Russian, speaking of the potential effects of blockchain technology on governments: “Soon technology will replace many of the functions of government. The technology of block chains can almost completely replace the state bureaucracy. Society … Continue reading
Destroying These Threats Before They Destroy the Human Future
The Three Faces of Challenge Three powerful forces seek to dominate — or conquer — today’s world. Each of the three should be considered deadly enemies to an abundant and expansive human future. The tactics and strategies used to meet … Continue reading
Posted in China, Coming Anarchy, Demographics, Disruptive Technologies, Empire, Europe, Future, geopolitics, Government, Groupthink, Human Slavery, Ideology, Idiocracy, innovation, Islam's Bloody Borders, Media
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Core v. Periphery VS. IQ and the Wealth of Nations
Core v. Periphery The world can be perceived as a core / periphery dichotomy where core countries are characterized by high levels of development, a capacity at innovation and a convergence of trade flows. The core has a level of … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, Economics, innovation, IQ, Peter Zeihan, Wealth of Nations
Tagged geopolitics, innovation, IQ
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Trump Overcoming Media Bias; US Elections a Big Headache
Donald Trump Ahead of Clinton in Rasmussen Presidential Poll At the close of a week that began with him trailing by seven points, Donald Trump still holds a slight lead over Hillary Clinton in today’s White House Watch survey despite … Continue reading
Posted in Disruptive Technologies, Hillary Clinton, innovation, Politics
Tagged Clintons, Infrastructure, Politics
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