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I think there should be an UBER competitor ,that really helps cities build their own clone effectively.

If that's possible politically , it would be interesting : the cities would have regulatory power to win over UBER, this very critical business that's might just be the future of transport will be in public hands and hopefully will be guided to the good of the community, and drivers will be compensated fairly.

But getting the politics right is very difficult.

"The continuing trend towards fewer people being employed in manufacturing, and greater automation of service jobs, will continue: our current societal model, whereby we work to earn money with which to buy the goods and services we need may not be sustainable in the face of a continuing squeeze on employment. But since when has consistency or coherency or even humanity been a prerequisite of any human civilization in history? We'll muddle on, even when an objective observer might look at us and shake her head in despair."

He wrote very little about that subject, although there's decent likelihood that will be the issue(together with AI,VR and possibly medical innovation) that will make 2034 very different from out time.

Even if they lose, won't the laws change to give them these powers ? I don't see something as potentially risky as drones running around unregulated.

We're probably the last population targeted by this phone. It probably targets seniors or heavy prime users.

Since there are actor libraries like akka targeting the JVM and claiming to offer similar benefits, why should someone prefer erlang?

Great project. I do wonder , why are 100 people involved ? is it very complicated ? or just the fact they volunteer so they can't give their 100% attention to this?

Teachers would probably have bigger problems.

According to clay christensen , the guy behind "the innovator's dillema" , more than 50% of colleges will go bankrupt soon(until 2020/2024).

YZF,why can't we start from an optimized FPGA - i.e. small memory blocks spread all around with massive bandwidth and low latency, and find a way to give decent enough access to the cpu to all that memory ?

And yes i know that the cpu will be the bottleneck, but it will be the bottleneck anyway.

Cover looks cool. Seems like the sort of thing amazon would like to launch next - with a quick launch button to it's flow app - as a way to spread the new firefly button("push to visual search") functionality faster.

What's your opinion on the new xilinx c-base design tools, and altera's opencl tools for doing compute acceleration ?

Thanks. Interesting paper.

Further ,this increases total cost of ownership by 30%, So the performance improvement is just about 70%.

Maybe the reason amazon prices that way, is that it's really expensive ?

It seems that the most expensive thing here would be the mayday service. And maybe it's the killer feature here?

One big reason why seniors buy the iphone is that there are classes in the apple store which help them learn to use the device and overcome their fear of tech.So mayday could work well for that segment.

Also, many tech people hate coming home after work and doing tech support for their family. They could have a strong influence on their family members phone purchase decision.

And i'm sure amazon has got data from their mayday on tablet to estimate the value of mayday.