Notice how corporations/industries or Republican Politicians will object to positions by just saying Regulations as if the word was an abomination and was sufficient and so no further argument need be made.
When I was growing up my father worked with programmers on computers the size of large rooms.
I built my own H-89 (remember Heathkit?) so I guess my kids were the first generation to have a family computer.
The most complicated program I ever used was for machine control of a camera on an arm.
You could program it in either 1 Cartesian coordinates 2. Polar coordinates 3 machine steps
And it would automatically translate these faster than I could press the button to go.
Useful and elegant.
Canada is not experiencing a brain drain to the US but a brain drain FROM the US. And as long as Trump and his policies are in place educated US citizens in the Stem fields will choose to live in Canada rather than stay in the States. So I advise Canada to maintain its immigration policy, you will gain much more than you will lose.
This IBM's old method of doing business except they sold the mainframe for a price then charged you for, JCL, Fortran, Cobal and whatever. Eventually, people rebelled and we have Unix and open source. After there are open source tools that do what they do (note open source does not mean free), then they will either go back to an own it forever model or die.
Article four reads in part...."but no new state shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other state....without the consent of the legislatures of the states concerned as well as the congress."
I give it a snowballs chance in hell of becoming a reality. First of all it would double the number of Senators from California which no other state would want and the above is a pretty high hurdle..
What I'd like to do with this technology is to live in the mountains completely off of the grid. I'd have to find a solution for internet access but this would answer all of my power needs. Plus I assume it to be cheaper than the grid