Fish gutters are more impressive than simply doing portioning with straight cuts ... but these machines have years to earn their costs.

For mobile phones you'd be designing new manipulators all the time, we don't have something as generic as the human hand which can work magic with relatively simple tools. We'll get there, but not in 3 years.

Technology creates new fields, but it's the trickle down effect (mediated through the market or through government) allowing increased consumption which creates the jobs.

Last time I looked there was no application of ANNs which couldn't be solved more efficiently by other algorithms ... and the best ANNs used spiking neurons with Hebbian learning which are not amenable to efficient digital implementation.

Infinity times.

Were your ideas relevant 10 years ago? Or did you perceive some problems which are only becoming relevant now?

We don't have our wealth stashed in numbered bank accounts ... although I think if it was the IRS which wanted the money they'd have it by now.

Yes, the relevant genes aren't going be expressed much ... but nothing a little selective pressure couldn't fix in a hurry.

Only as long as the transfer payments increase, yet neo-liberalism seems to be growing more virulent rather than retreating ...

I think living standards is a better word for the ability to consume. I count wealth in m2, not in the ability to consume. Land generates rent ... iPhones do not. When land ownership shifts to the top, government has to make up the difference through redistribution to not let everything snowball up.

IMO we have been able to improve median living standards through increasing government redistribution ... do you disagree? If not, are you willing to let that redistribution continue to increase?

Making it more difficult for modern coders to quickly compose SQL queries could be considered a valuable feature ...

They finally disallowed that in v3 ... shame so many are sticking to the previous one.

Didn't Python 3 finally disallow mixing spaces and tabs for indentation by default? Should have done that from the start.

If you have a formal education you have heard of his name for A*.

If you don't you will at the very least have heard the sentence Goto Considered Harmful ... and I think we can all agree it's a snappy turn of phrase, hard to forget and by now iconic. Unless you lock someone up in a cave with The C Programming Language before they learned any programming I think they'll have heard of it by the time they are proficient with C.

He deposited the cash ... if the bank can't recognize it we have bigger issues.

In the last 2 decades on a general purpose processor? Why? AFAICS it has been proven without any room for reasonable doubt that programmers have to be protected against themselves in this ... and the performance impact hasn't been relevant in a long time.