Newmark's Door

I think society should have a few dreamers. But there are two problems:

1. There are way, way more applicants for the job than there are openings.
2. Even for blue-sky dreaming, there should be some attempt to separate dreams from fantasy and sheer craziness. The time and whatever resources were devoted to trying to spin straw into gold were a complete waste.

I think Elon Musk is not a dreamer but a BS artist. Here's a seemingly careful attempt to support that thesis.

As I recall, Bill Gates also had an excellent batting average on predictions of future technology. Both Gates and Bezos made a ton of money. Funny how that works.

When the case started--1995?--Google was much smaller and I could see a reason why they didn't want to pay a lot for the IP. But why don't they want to settle this now?

1.4 nanometers! That's really small, dude.

So you can keep up with the kids.

"YouTube has 2 billion active monthly users," "63% of Americans watch YouTube on a daily basis," and more.

Funny or sad: you decide.

If they do it as well as they do search this will be a boon for visually impaired folks.

A whole lot of mistakes ex post.

UPDATE: link fixed now.

Well, it might be early yet. But I haven't noticed an Internet apocalypse.