Technology

Merle worked on energy hardware projects for emerging markets and helped develop technology that stabilizes the U.S. electrical grid

Proto-Town is a campus designed to help hardware startups prototype test and scale technologies

Both founders saw firsthand how difficult it was for hardware companies to find space resources and talent and set out to build a better solution

Space X used its launch pad to test and launch larger rockets starting around 2019

Portions of the two-lane highway are closed during launches

Technology billionaires tend to be the most enthusiastic proponents

Cellphone service cuts out about 30 seconds into a car ride out of Tumbler Ridge

Technological innovation is about collaboration as much as it is about competition

Smartest technologies distil a problem down to its bread and butter components in order to disseminate a solution to the masses

The rest of us should stop being passive recipients of technology and start asking ourselves what kind of world we want to live in and how to create it

The setting for innovation must be £1bn-plus buildings like Google’s new London offices in King’s Cross located in nations that can afford to stomach eye-watering training costs and compute power requirements

Develop an AI at your own home and programme it to reflect your values and prioritise your safety you would trust it more

Technologies are the basis of local community networks that supply coverage to 2.5 billion people globally who lack internet access

Frugal tech does not impose top-down solutions that complicate lives while making a few people rich

Real pioneering technologies are genuinely useful systems called frugal tech brought to life by people doing more with less

New digital divide is the gap between the top end of the global population who have access to power-intensive technologies and those at the bottom whose internet access remains static

Some of today’s most brilliant minds are working out how to manage the trade-off between internet range and bandwidth and whether there are obstacles in the way such as mountains and foliage

State-of-the-art technology has to be expensive energy consumptive and hard to engineer

Policy and innovation go hand in hand meaning that the consequences of good technology far exceed the technology itself extending to governance and social welfare

Generative AI iterations such as Dall-E 3 Google Gemini and GPT are irrelevant to those who do not have enough internet bandwidth to use them