Things That Occur to Me #50
Thirty years from now, climate issues won't even be a concern, and we'll all fondly remember when we worried about it, much as we old folks all remember when global cooling was a major crisis.This will happen because (a) we'll have figured out cheaper, more efficient, carbon-free ways to generate electricity and move vehicles, and (b) we'll have figured out a way to turn carbon into something valuable instead of the silly notion that we exhale poison.
Probably the most underappreciated technology in the history of the world is the electric socket.
If a fresh high school graduate came to me and said, “I want to be a software developer,” I would tell her to skip college and instead go to the best coding bootcamp she could find and afford.
I don't think it is possible to measure the incredible value brought to the world by open source software. Linux alone has been the root cause of the generation of trillions of dollars.
"New driver, please be patient" is to the 2020s as "Baby on Board" was to the 1980s.