ironchief

He messaged me a couple years ago and it matches with this post's description: "While the first half of the email was about the idea, invariably, the 2nd half was about how much money it was going to make."

  Point-to-point supersonic organ delivery

  Dear Derek,

  I'm Bob Cringely, an ancient Silicon Valley pundit. I also run a little
  CubeSat air-launch startup. Competition from SpaceX forced us to cut costs
  so we figured how to make an old French business jet fly Mach 1.6 on the
  fuel to fly Mach 0.8. Now we want to apply this tech to organ delivery.
  100 VTOL supersonic drones could serve the whole US operating from helipad
  to helipad at 1000 mph. Not autonomous, they'll have pilots on the ground.
  It's a $2 billion business with 75 percent margins but only we know how.
  Please pass it on.

Fascinating that High Performance Computers had export controls in the 90s as dual use technology but little restraint until recently.

How would we apply this today? Instead of MTOPS use TFLOPS FP16?

I thought your comment was a joke until I read the link. Wow

"District Attorney investigators found that in contradiction to the contract, information was stored on servers in the People’s Republic of China."

Every org that hired Alan Kay as a fellow was closed

- Apple Advanced Technology Group

- Walt Disney Imagineering Fellows

- HP Advanced Software Research

- VPRI

Do you have the link to the documentary?

This hardly meets the definition of brief description, let alone a "Deep Dive".

I recommend reading this blog post and drawing your own conclusion.

My conclusion is PG's "I can lay out what I know to be the right thing to do, and still not do it."

Yes.