The "future shock" scarcity of mass starvation was on track until China got it's act together
And getting its act together meant loosening the screws and allowing capitalist enterprises to emerge. That's moving to the right. Oh, and my words may offend you, but they are not dumb. Just honest. And the only reason they are dissonant to your ears is that you are too used to the hearing the leftist serenade which, just as the original serenade, is meant to trap you into a lull, Odysseus.
when communism calls for a post-scarcity society
missed the whole point about the left not meaning what it says, did ya?
The internet was rejected by the private sector. AT&T saw it as competition for their business model which was based on telephones.
AT&T was a state-sponsored monopoly (until it wasn't). It is the court-ordered end of the state-sponsored monopoly which precipitated telecom Renaissance.
You need permissionless, disruptive innovation, not some rich capitalist telling you what to do.
Right. Because state regulation is what causes venture capitalism (ie, investment in creative disruption). GIve me a break.
No, the green revolution was a result of government research efforts that the private sector is too short-sighted to invest in.
If you still haven't heard, the actual scientists (you know... the ones concerned with facts and numbers) don't see green energy as a net-positive in energy gain. Chu stated the fact that he was forced to defend technology which is not mature enough as the reason for his resignation. And that's just on the generation side. On the storage side? Storing energy as covalent bonds is the most stable way of transporting it between disconnected paths which are not effected by gravity.
Cynics would say that he was naive in believing that he could effect
No, that wouldn't be cynics. That would be his ardent supporters. Cynics would say that he is just another lying politician.
Somebody ought to cross ball point pens with coat hangers so that the pens will multiply instead of disappear.