Ultimately, My Ph.d. Is In Mathematical Physics,

Technological 'revolutions' Don't Really Overthrow Anything - They Simply Append A New And Dynamic Market To That Which Went Before.

If You Had A Really Good - Battery, It Wouldn't Matter That The Sun Goes Down At Night And The Wind Stops Blowing Sometimes. But At The Moment, Battery Technology Is Nowhere Near Good Enough To Use At Utility Scale.

In Market Research I Did At Microsoft Corp. In The Early 1990s, I Estimated That The 'wall Street Journal' Took In About 75 Cents Per Copy From Subscribers, $1.25 At The Newsstand And A Whopping $5 Per Copy From Ads. The Ad Revenue Let Them Run A Far Bigger Newsroom Than Subscribers Were Paying For.

Another Random Thing I Do Is The Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Or Seti. And You May Be Familiar With The Movie 'contact,' Which Sort Of Popularized That. It Turns Out There Are Real People Who Go Out And Search For Extraterrestrials In A Very Scientific Way.

Risk Is The Sort Of Word That Is Easy To Discuss Upfront But Tough To Handle When It Comes Time To Pay The Piper. There Will Always Be Some Who Wimp Out And Second-guess When The Pain Hits, But That Is A Childish Reaction.