Bill Gates, et. al, have the approach to the problem that's more likely to succeed.

Carbon credits have the workable idea of making it profitable to lessen production of green-house gases, but it attempts this by creating artificial incentives to control the actions of businesses. Such heavy-handed interference is almost always short-term and rife with the usual faults politically mandated solutions bring to the table.

On the other hand, if using clean energy can be made to actually be significantly cheaper and more convenient, then the solution to "dirty" energy will be quickly enacted all on its own. No government intervention needed.

No tinfoil hat needed. I used to run printer ink cartridges until they ran dry. No big deal. Just change the cartridge and reprint the last half-printed page. Either it was after an update or purchasing a new printer, I forget, but suddenly the printer was the one deciding when the ink had to be changed, refusing to print in any color until it was. Considering the last paged printed was fine, I assume there was at least some ink left. (That was a few years ago, and it was the last inkjet printer I owned.)

The courage to make a profit? Samsung knew that batteries can expand during use, and they knew they weren't allowing much leeway for the expansion, but they courageously went with a hip slimmer design anyway. (And they surely were aware of what can happen when internal positive and negative parts of a battery rupture into contact.)

Now might be the time for them to pull back, go for a less cutting-edge stable design, and save pushing boundaries for another day.

As mentioned in the article, IBM's past with this kind of thing is suspect. See http://www.nytimes.com/books/f... So you'd think they'd have given a loud and clear "no". As should the other tech firms. And Microsoft's doublespeak about not responding to "hypotheticals" is disingenuous. Trump's statements about a Muslim database are quite real.

A sign of the times? Zeitgeist, perhaps?

The American political cluster-fuck continues. There's no end in sight. And away we continue, one and all.

It's not often a joke makes me laugh out loud. If I had mod points, I'd give you one.

(Emphasis added.)

Yikes. Did the CEO of Red Hat really want to use that particular word?

The agricultural revolution changed how farming was done, and probably disrupted a lot of people's lives in the process. And it lowered the chances of famine.

Then the industrial revolution came along and disrupted people's lives again, and increased the chances of having what one needed for survival, such as clothing, shelter, and a better distribution of food.

Now we have the technology revolution...and having one's livelihood (with the core sense of identity it often provides) displaced really sucks. But it's happening and likely will continue. And overall things will probably improve significantly for the human race.

Excuse the platitudes, but time marches on, the human race holds on for the ride, and I think overall things will get better. Eventually,

Yes, this is why some people seem to always land on their feet in terms of employment...and others just can never seem to find work.

Tarnation ta' gawd blimey, you confuse me. Are you American Southerner or British!

The U.S. Founding Fathers crafted the Constitution to address the "all governments eventually go corrupt" issue. Since then every American government coming to power has worked real hard to erode those safeguards. Two hundred years of erosion have taken their toll.