Baby, please come back.
This virus has been like a wildfire, sweeping through education, academia, and blue cities. It took technological and social trends that were already happening, and rapidly accelerated them, and now they’re smoldering ashes. I don’t think any of them will ever be the same again. And that’s not a bad thing.
…has been oversold.
At some point, the people will simply rebel.
And a depressing post from Virginia Postrel about “the new normal.”
[Update a few minutes later]
In which the former editor of Reason magazine is called a “lefty Marxist.”
Here’s an overview of the state of the art of needed technologies to beam power to earth, from almost three decades ago, when I was working at Rockwell. I ran across it in trying to reduce the entropy of my office. It’s funny how little has changed.
Sorry about the rotation; that’s how it scanned into the PDF. Just rotate it with your browser.
“Property rights are human rights, and we discard them at our peril.”
Kotkin nails it, as usual.
The Republicans should be able to take advantage of this, with a pitch to the Hispanics and blacks, but they won’t. But if Trump were to campaign in CA, it could help a lot.
How to bring them back home.
Unfortunately, Cuomo and De Blasio aren’t up to the job.
I suspect that he is not alone in having had enough. And it will be the same for many other cities run by Democrats.
I haven’t had time to read it yet, but the White House has released a new document from the National Space Council.
We’ve now gone through five months of it.
And no, we’re not talking about Trump, though he could have done better, too.
The Pentagon wants to buy some.
These can be done pretty quickly and cheaply, both because the cost of access has dropped, and because the customer actually wants them, not a jobs program. ISS has warped our notions of what space stations have to cost and how long they should take to build as much as Apollo has about how much going to the moon has to cost.