Re:Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innova...
by barney54 on Thursday September 18, 2014 @10:56PM
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Electric cars are 125 years old, so I'm not sure why that's new. Their sales have stalled at about 3.6% of the market.
Solar panels piece does not matter much until batteries are much better, if you want power at night or when the sun isn't full strength.
Re:Why Is Peter Thiel Pessimistic About Technological Innova...
by joeclark77 on Friday September 19, 2014 @01:00AM
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Generally when I'm shopping for a car, "it can't be stopped" is not a selling point that I'm looking for.
I believe that relatively soon we'll have genetics-driven psychiatry and medicine. Depressed people won't automatically be prescribed SSRIs, but what is deemed most suitable based on their genetic profile. Nobody will need to ask you if you're allergic to penicillin or anaesthetics, those mistakes won't happen anymore.
Then there's deep neural networks. We now have computer programs that can recognize what's in an image more accurately than human beings. Domestic robots might well happen during our lifetime. They're going to be basic at first, but you can't stop progress.