Re:Hallmark of an Economic Ponzi Scheme
by trhway on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:20AM
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>The next big thing may be
how about autonomous cars, weapons, and everything else in between?
>That's a slow, capital-intensive, heavy-industry infrastructure upgrade, driven by manufacturing cost reduction.
manufacturing cost reduction would come from those autonomous systems and overall tech based approach (when Musk succeeds with his Model 3 production goals it will be only light preview of autonomous manufacturing of the future), and as result the "infrastructure upgrade" will be faster and less capital-intensive.
In general, the SV starts to move beyond the pure computing tech and into the other industries. Again, Musk as an example, with Tesla and SpaceX being more of tech companies in car and space business and less of just car and space companies. Or Uber - a tech company in taxi business. One can also see a rise of a tech company in agriculture, be it farm-in-container or autonomous fleet of tractors doing its stuff on huge people-less farms (kind of next iteration of transition like that described in Grapes of Wrath)
And the "solar, wind, and storage taking over the energy industry" also will be done based on tech, if not by a tech company, as the distributed and less predictable nature of those sources would require orders of magnitude better monitoring of the whole energy grid, real-time prediction, planning and redistribution.
how about autonomous cars, weapons, and everything else in between?
>That's a slow, capital-intensive, heavy-industry infrastructure upgrade, driven by manufacturing cost reduction.
manufacturing cost reduction would come from those autonomous systems and overall tech based approach (when Musk succeeds with his Model 3 production goals it will be only light preview of autonomous manufacturing of the future), and as result the "infrastructure upgrade" will be faster and less capital-intensive.
In general, the SV starts to move beyond the pure computing tech and into the other industries. Again, Musk as an example, with Tesla and SpaceX being more of tech companies in car and space business and less of just car and space companies. Or Uber - a tech company in taxi business. One can also see a rise of a tech company in agriculture, be it farm-in-container or autonomous fleet of tractors doing its stuff on huge people-less farms (kind of next iteration of transition like that described in Grapes of Wrath)
And the "solar, wind, and storage taking over the energy industry" also will be done based on tech, if not by a tech company, as the distributed and less predictable nature of those sources would require orders of magnitude better monitoring of the whole energy grid, real-time prediction, planning and redistribution.