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Some computer experts like Marvin Minsky, Larry Page, Ray Kuzweil think A.I. will be a great gift to Mankind.
Others like Bill Joy and Elon Musk are fearful of potential danger. Where do you stand, Linus?
NASA has only enough for about 3-4 more missions before it runs out.
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The US doesnt manufacture the kind they need. They got some from dismantling Russian warheads, but no longer.
The upcompiong Juno-Jupiter mission was converted to solar power, about the distance limit they can do with solar cells.
Past few years a PE could get almost 6-figures with a BS. Departments jammed with students. Many recent PE grads dont have jobs with the oil price crsh.
The cyncial trend in education has been a NARROWING of offered courses to foucus on all those silly tests kids have to take so school system get more government money and teachers get performance bonuses.
Tech MOOCs was supposed to be a cost-efficient way of remedial education for the half of freshmen who needed it. But it not work. MOOCs are generally for self-disciplined and motivated students, the opposite ot those who never reached 8th grade proficiency levels and need remedial work. Sometimes more tech is not the answer.
Many of the creative geniuses in know, including myself, educated ourselves in technology and other subjects. Either the teaching system couldnt handle use, or was concernerned mosty with average students.
MicroSoft liked a Java-like languge, but found it too slow or rebuffed in suggesting changes to Sun. So htye basically made a hJava-like language themselves. For most of its history its only run in the MicroSoft ecosystem, although there are feeble attempts to make it multiplatform.