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The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like


Pushing the ball forward in energy and manufacturing is a lot more difficult than selling software.

But, so far, every demonstrated legitimate use case involves careful data supervision and expert oversight—a rather expensive labor- enhancing tool, not the super-capable virtual personal assistant that CEOs are slavering over, and would justify the trillions of dollars in market capitalization in AI companies. In addition to compensating with battery storage, scientists (in government as well as the private sector) and entrepreneurs have been cooking up all kinds of new business ideas harnessing this dirt-cheap power to revolutionize manufacturing markets long considered mature. Facebook remains useful as a sort of telephone directory, I guess, but at the cost of devouring half the journalism industry and driving innumerable baby boomers toward conspiracy theories and extremism.

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