Why does it seem like this is an attempt to become the largest money-laundering business on earth?

That was true of early wireless phones, as the number of access points was small and the quality of service was low. Demand changed that over time.

Their legacy for this CPU architecture is legendary, and that is the problem. It carries so much with it that revolutionary change is practically impossible. It makes it easy for a large company to become an old one.

Donald Trump must be extremely jealous of Elon Musk. Both have a flair for embellishment. However, Mr. Musk has made so much more money than Mr. Trump in a much shorter period of time and from a smaller base, too. Mr. Musk seems to have a better sense of how far to take a boast, and this autopilot statement is a good example. He enamors us with the truth we want to hear and leaves it to his people to deliver the truth we need to hear.

I remember some law class, decades ago, where it was mentioned that the First Amendment was restricted by the Supreme Court in a case where a man used a bullhorn to drown out the voices of everyone else.

Perhaps they had a falling out with Lockheed Martin over the Artemis project.

These vanity credit 'scores' are a joke, at least the ones we see. The 'score' that counts is the one that goes to companies that pay for your credit history report, which has information that you cannot see, like salary history.

Some believe the top one percent control the world. Depending upon how you measure that, it might come down to tens of millions of people, all of whom believe they have a great vested interest in keeping at least their portion of the world working. This public row between Mark Zuckerberg and Tim Cook is an example of how we can take some comfort in knowing that tens of millions could never conspire collectively. While they will always have points of agreement to exploit, those will always be based on orthogonal vectors of self-interest that diverge as quickly as they intersected. In other words, it could be worse. Recent examples include North Korea, the Soviet Union, and Nazi Germany. Many might say that 'justifying' disproportionate wealth by comparing it to totalitarian governments is hardly fair. True. To those, I ask, "How fair is life?"

Your insight opens a can of worms regarding intellectual property and technology's effect. Today, there are still many human hands producing art using electronic technology, and there are many precedents regarding the evolution of creative work over the past 70 years. As technology accelerates, fewer hands are needed for more and varied content. Copyright is a good example, as this could touch on lyrics, score, performance, and now the source code of the tools used to produce it, e.g., AutoTune. Add things like Blockchain, and a successful work could have a ledger a mile long with almost no one in the chain really understanding it. Of course, someone will write a program to sort it all out for laypeople such as myself. Blockchain could be a tool for 'who gets what' and other payment-related issues, but if you are a musician, it must feel like a byzantine inhibition. Someday, great musicians might also be great mathematicians, quantitative analysts, or scientists, an interesting mix.

There are two ways to look at this. One is a critical review of the work as a piece of art. Two is a plausible product that can be marketed and sold. While not a nuanced example of the group's repertoire, it certainly provides nostalgia, sort of like Muzak giving an elevator ride a faint memory of the Beatles. This might become the 21st century Muzak, which was never a big business, nevertheless profitable. Vinod Khosla once predicted that music would eventually become a spontaneously generated service, specifically tailored to the individual's taste, mood, and context. Of course, this means AI will drive the supply chain from composition to performance. People will still be involved, somehow.

The Internet is the greatest frontier since Europeans discovered the western hemisphere. As such, one should expect the same levels of opportunity and lawlessness.

In the 1980s, Austin was called the next Silicon Valley. American Airlines opened a direct route between San Jose and Austin. Demographers noted a movement of people from SV to Austin, and SV companies announced expansion into Austin. Dell was booming. UT was the next Stanford, buying Ivy League professors and starting programs like entrepreneurship. Austin was flaming hot, and Silicon Valley, which was losing fabs faster than rats deserting a sinking ship, was in decline. Texas Monthly wrote an article about it (that is God's word from his mouth to your ear). It was a done deal!

As post-production tools become more automated, I expect to see the same remix phenomenon with movies that we have seen with music in the past. Movie theaters were once the narrow gateway to broad distribution; then it was three channels of TV, then a thousand channels of cable, now unlimited streaming. The momentum is toward the remix. Someday, I hope to remix Gone with the Wind, having Rhett and Scarlett with long faces, bling-bling, and farting the whole time.

Do not overestimate incompetence. The correction to such an error may be found in the trash bin or backup registry, assuming they failed to clear those.