I've been skeptical of Pickens' plans to use Natural Gas to get us off foreign oil up till now. But now that I know he sees this as a bridge strategy until we can move off of fossil fuels all together, I'm more encouraged by it. Although a little hyper-sensitive about relying on foreign countries for energy, he offers a solid short-term plan for a cleaner liquid fuel for heavy-duty vehicles.
"When someone demands to know how we are going to replace newspapers, they are really demanding to be told that we are not living through a revolution. They are demanding to be told that old systems won’t break before new systems are in place.... They are demanding to be lied to."
Tim talks about working on stuff that matters, and how we need to tackle big challenges if we wish to improve ourselves, rather than racking up small, inconsequential victories.
Tim and Shai talk about the economics and feasability of electric cars as compared to the status quo.
Saul tackles the challenge of climate change from an engineering point of view, and
shared how he calculated his own fair share of the planet's energy resources.
Enriquez talks about the need to move away from a brute force approach to our harvesting and use of fossil fuels until we can transition away from them toward sustainable energy sources.
Law professor, copyright policy scholar and cofounder of the Creative Commons, Lessig presents the case for why current copyright law makes no sense in the light of current culture and current technology.
Craig Venter tells us what he's been up to, from sampling the world's oceans to determine biodiversity, to engineering strands of DNA from scratch.
Paul gives us a tour of the business of predicting the future. He includes some engaging anecdotes from his own experience where he has caught glimpses of what is to come.
