"I'm not hearing anything I would want to listen to in any of those samples."

That's like 90+% of highly popular "music" promoted today. "Machine generated" is hardly different from the formula-generated crap aside from how much involvement there is from some nonmusician operating the controls.

It's never made sense why NM and AZ in particular haven't been covered in PVs.
What we've not seen enough of are systems smart enough to schedule demand for things that need not be done at particular times to take advantage of surpluses. Mixed-use regions will allow some type of factories and services to operate during peak production but buy energy from nearby residences so "the grid" in a larger sense has no role in it.
Now... all new AND existing big box stores need to cover their roofs and at least portions of parking lots.

"We want charitable donations to be directed to areas that benefit Amazon."

So our electricity was cut for 3.5 hours in an unannounced "rolling blackout" when the temperature was 4 F. Now I'm wondering if it would have occurred had no mining been occurring.

Now that for many works the cost to duplicate is effectively zero, society really does need a better way of paying creators for their work than by selling copies at artificial prices. Take recorded music for example. If you think the prices reflect anything like the quality or effort invested in producing a work, then there's some virtual swampland for sale with your name on it.

A huge unfulfilled advantage to civilization of zero duplication cost is being thrown away because of all this thrashing about.

Acceptable false positive error rate is ZERO unless there's a very quick, very easy appeal process in place, in which an acceptable error rate is something between 0 and .01.

Until individuals are held accountable, not with puny fines but something like "half your net worth plus 3 months in non-country club jail" not much will change.

Seems to me this warrants a criminal investigation ending with prison time for those responsible. No corporation will do the right thing until those running it are deprived of their freedom for crimes.

Yes to a bit of CS including some fundamental programming but get corporate hands out of it. Their motive is just to crank out coders and push down wages. Teach whys, not just how-tos.

You know how the DI in movies makes the whole platoon run miles because one guy didn't meet his demands? Yeah, this is like that. Make the whole county resent drag shows because it gets their power cut. In such a location that strategy will work. People who dont otherwise give a damn about where a drag show occurs can be bent into a large contingent of anti-draggers by punishing them for allowing it.

People spend a lot of time trying to make the flow one-way. If ammonia can be distributed through existing major pipelines then that's logical but if not, choose an easier-to-handle carrier, even if it means collecting recyclable waste at every refueling. Trucks ships, and trains might as well carry stuff back to factories. Only pipelines are one-way distribution systems.

I might buy that an inkjet that prints one page a day, never more, never less, could have advantages. But I print a few pages, sometimes a lot of pages, once a month or so. Large jobs, laser printers are better. Infrequent use, laser printers are better. Quit making excuses and just admit inkjets are more profitable for you. I didn't notice that my last Stylus was any better or worse than my last HP inkjet but neither approach my Brother color laser for low maintenance, quality of print, or durability. Good luck. I do still respect my 24 pin Epson impact printer. Maybe you could make those again.

Give viewers control. Long ago there should've been two or three tracks individually adjustable at the TV. Dialogue, background music, and sound effects. Default settings, fine, but give the viewer control. I realize "content" producers hate the idea of consumers having control over anything.

Yep. My first thoughts too. He said it wasnt that the most important discoveries had been made but I'd argue that the easiest discoveries have been made (to some degree). Can you make significant progress in aviation now given only what Orville and Wilbur had available?

It has more faults than that. You can't measure the inputs required to produce something that previously did not exist. What did it require to cure some rare diseases that were incurable but can now be cured due to a new drug or procedure?