Most of the GMO seeds from big agribusiness (Monsanto, etc.) are engineered to be resistant to the chemicals which you must apply to get the high yields. The chemicals kill everything else. You must buy the seeds and the chemicals together to get the high yields.
This makes economic sense (if not environmental sense) in developed countries but completely fails in less developed economies. This is the problem with foisting developed country "solutions" on developing countries. They end up with high cost, unsustainable agriculture.

Yes, you are an old fuddy-duddy.

They have... it's called the model A+

Iridium ran out of money before they could get enough satellites up to make the service viable and lost billions. It was also very expensive compared to ground based networks so was only viable in isolated areas, giving them a very limited market. But post bankruptcy is still operational and will start launching it's next generation of satellites (with better data capacity) next year. Elon Musk's SpaceX has been contracted to launch the satellites. Now, twenty years later it is a viable business.

Right now they are constrained by the supply of batteries. They are building a factory to make enough batteries for 500,000 cars a year so in a few years they will not have this constraint.
Currently their gross margin on cars is 30%... much higher than any other car company. They also have a 2-4 month backlog of orders without doing any advertising and having a very limited distribution network. They are projecting 50%+ growth for the next few years.
The competition has so far only produced pathetic electric cars (limited range using old designs and chassis from their ICE cars). These are equivalent to what a weekend mechanic could build in his garage. None of the established car companies has attempted to make the investment required to build a real electric car from the ground up like Tesla has... they could do it but they are at least 5 years behind the curve so it will take them a long time to come out with something equivalent to today's Tesla... and by then, Tesla will have moved on to something better.

In the past I've had a Porsche and a Land Rover that were each more expensive (adjusted for inflation) than my Tesla as well as a bunch of less expensive German cars. The Tesla is by far the best car I've ever owned. The whole driving experience (power, handling, comfort, etc.) is incredible... an order of magnitude better than anything I've ever owned.
The fact that it is environmentally friendly is just icing on the cake (but was the primary reason I bought it).

And if it's a medical device, by the time the doctors get hold of it and charge their "special" markup (because we can), it will be no cheaper (and probably more expensive) than existing ultrasound.

Unfortunately, natural gas is not environmentally friendly. We've been lied to by the fracking industry (surprise!). Natural gas does have less CO2 than coal but it still emits CO2. The worse part is that natural gas itself is 34 times as potent as CO2 in the global warming department and fracking is particularly "leaky" leading to lots of this greenhouse gas in the atmosphere.
So... we need to get off of all fossil fuels, including natural gas.

It's hard to know what to do when you have more money than you can possibly spend. What a dilemma!
Let's see... 10 minutes of fear, joy, excitement?
Or... give some money to "poor people"? ... not much excitement in that.
I just don't have a frame of reference for the dilemma these people face.

2007? What happened in 2007? Run up to the financial crash when Wall Street screwed everyone?
I think we should go back to 1776 to get the real story.

... or he could be worse...

... and to a "well regulated militia"...