Anything that enables people to do things better and more efficiently, also enables people to commit crimes better and more efficiently.

Software development is more like product design than product production. After decades of getting better at product design, computerizing all kinds of aspects of the design process, we still need lots of product designers. For the same reason, we will always continue to need people with programming skills...the job called "programming" will just use different, more powerful tools. As efficiency increases, the pace escalates. Now we can go to market with new products (or new software) in a matter of weeks or months, instead of years.

They make a lot of assumptions about what is possible, based on economic cycles. It's really the industrial revolution all over again. The amount of work one person can do has been increasing for a couple hundred years now, but somehow we keep finding things to do. In the 60s, there were widespread predictions that by 2000, people would typically work 24 hours a week, because of automation and computerization of work. Ha! Don't we all wish!

Like most behaviors, aggression has a good side and a bad side. It is found throughout nature, where it often makes the difference between survival and death. Is Hawking saying that aggression is good only for the rest of nature, but not for humans? Yes, aggression has a dark side. But it could well be one of the pillars of the survival of the human race.

I guess now we call everything "nanotech," such as what we used to call "electro-plating."

That sounds like marketing-speak to me. The "up to" part means it could be 0 x stronger, or 1.1 x stronger, and theoretically (but not likely ever in real life) up to 10 x stronger.

Most communities think it important to teach all young people classes in art and music. We don't expect that everyone will therefore become PROFICIENT at art and music. Instead, we see this kind of education as an important way to expose young people to all kinds of possibilities, hoping that they will then find what it is that they are good at.

Other than that this is also a search engine, that is.

Maybe Google is late to the enterprise game, but they certainly have started pursuing it. Apparently, a lot of corporations are switching to Google for Work, mine included.

http://www.winbeta.org/news/go...

Have you watched the news lately? If you haven't noticed, that's about all the news is these days...unless you want to include the steamy lives of celebrities.

People who invent things that save lives...SHOULD be rewarded. It's nice to see somebody get the benefit of their own contribution to humanity. Kudos!

HE'S the guy that puts up all those web sites that have nothing on them except links that are designed to get unsuspecting people to click on them, for the ad revenue.

If this leakage is really happening, it would seem to violate the law of conservation of matter and energy, at least as it could be observed in this universe. Once these neutrons "leak" out of our universe, they would no longer be "here." Even if the law is technically preserved because they are now in another universe, this is a really big pill to swallow.

Yes, and if you're going to GNC to improve your health, you are also very confused. The entire homeopathic remedy industry has been full of quacks since...snake oil. And it hasn't gotten any better since.

The article says only 5,000 have been laid off, but "the rest are being laid off without being laid off." That sounds like hand-waving to me. I suspect the truth is somewhere in between the two numbers.