You say that now...

Like we used to do in the 90s and just called it 'engineering'.

Mostly clouds are more expensive than doing it yourself, unless you fire your sysadmin(s) as part of the deal.

I think you may have underestimated the difficulty of sealing the borders of several countries. The more this goes on the more people will try to leave. There are not enough soldiers in the world to stop a population fleeing imminent death.

I think that depends what you consider the 100% to be. If it's humanity, then 1% is a significant overestimate of people who can afford this.

Homo sapiens will never stop using Latin.

The more I see of python the less I like it. Every time I try to install some python package there is some incompatibility with the system python, or some wierdness in compiling the underlying libraries, and I have to maintain several versions of the language. For some reason it doesn't seem to be backward-compatible, which leads me to question the sanity of whoever decided to make it that way. It is way worse than perl that at least 'just works' a lot more of the time. Maybe it's just me?

That website does not look like an authoritative peer-reviewed source. It is not a scientific forum.

I thought she was an expert on the evolution of dogs, on the payroll of the Heartland Institute. Not sure why her opinions on walrus movements should be of interest to anyone.

>some idiot paid for them

I think we know who paid for them.

Probably, yes. Paying people to do things cheaply does not necessarily improve their life. The quality of life of a hunter gatherer is arguably better than that of a farm worker, and the quality of life of a farm worker is arguably better than that of a factory worker. None of this stops people converting from hunter gatherers to farmers to factory workers, because they want more resources and stability to look after their their children, but it doesn't usually work out that way. The extra 'richness' tends to support larger and larger populations of children, and richer and richer elites, while the quality of life of individuals does not get better on the whole.

The best way to solve these challenges is to start building these things, find out what works, and scale up to enjoy the economies of scale. Germany is clearly winning this race and will be selling everyone their technology later, as per usual.

Germany is well on the way to doing this on the scale of a whole country. It just takes some political will.