I'm old enough to remember that when turning on a TV in the 1970's you had to wait around 30 seconds for the tube to warm up before the picture appeared. How far we've come... lol.

There's a scene in 'Idiocracy' where a Roomba-like device in a hospital constantly drives into a wall and repeats the phrase "your floor is now clean!"

Bitcoin is a metastatic planet-scale cancer that feeds on coal. China is the worst affected area and will be completely consumed within 20 years.

Are you Danish? it's the USA that's doing the currency debasement.

I disagree. A lead coin with a gold leaf wrapper is worth $1700 as long as the person buying it believes it is worth $1700. Commerce is based on faith, regardless of underlying true value (if any). For example, if everybody woke up tomorrow and decided not to buy bitcoin ever again, its value would drop from $50,000 to $0.

The very definition of worth is how much somebody is willing to pay for an asset, beit real estate, art, gold bars or pretend currency. They paid a million bucks for cryptocurrency therefore it is worth a million bucks.

I'm more wondering where they expect their water to come from. Reno NV already has to focus on water conservation for existing residents, and future warming is only going to increase the pressure.

Or drink water instead? Maybe in the future we'll look at drinking brown sugar water in the same way as we now look at smoking.

You clearly don't work in marketing or advertising.

In the words of the late great George Carlin - Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.

and made the aircraft thought-controlled.

I'm curious, in the USA, gas is around $2 or $3 a gallon, yes? If you haven't already, how high would it have to go for you to seriously consider abandoning ICE vehicle(s) forever and switch to electric only (or even no vehicle at all) ?

To me this appears less about environmental concerns as it is an
acknowledgement that there is simply no point doing any more exploration for oil as it has become clear that there are no more significant new oil reserves out there to dicover. Ouch.

He should base it in Detroit and develop a robot police force to guard it.

At a personal level, wealth is the ability to maximize pleasure and minimize pain for as much of the remainder of ones life as possible.

Weirdly, on that basis, the richest people in the world are the terminally ill receiving massive doses of morphine.