It's Time To Ignore Petty Politics and Focus On 'Transformative' Tech: Eric Schmidt (techcrunch.com)

Eric Schmidt, Executive Chairman at Alphabet in an interview said that we need to focus more on the possibilities of advances in biology and medicine as well as AI. But he feels people are spending "all our time arguing about political issues that are ultimately not that important." He urges people to stop doing that and work on things that are transformative. He added: "We've gone from an era where we thought about solving problems that were very, very big," he said. "We now define them as problems of special interests. Everyone's guilty. I'm not making a particular political point here." Schmidt seemed excited enough about the possibility of medical breakthroughs that Rose asked him: If he was starting over today, would he be more likely to go into computer science or biology? "Both are having a renaissance," Schmidt said.

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Re:The problem is

[Archangel Michael]

You get idiots in Congress who don't know the difference between weather and climate

Well, when a vast number of AGW proponents point to weather as evidence of climate, I would suggest to you that plenty of people don't have a clue about the difference.

Its really hot ---- "GLOBAL WARMING!!!!"
Its snowing really late ---- Its just weather, nothing to see here

To be honest climate has always changed. It will always change. We might even be responsible for some of it. But the Ice Caps are still there, even after Al Gore said they would be gone.

Re:Eric? Can you come out of the ivory tower a sec

[bluefoxlucid]

You mean the labor force that stably holds around 58% of population, but has experienced a labor force bubble to 69%, and is now coming down as the population ages and retires?

Do you mean the labor force people complained about in the early-2000s because housewives started working to get a second income, claiming it was impossible to survive on a single income anymore?

Do you mean the labor force which continues to grow year after year, even as it shrinks as a proportion of the total population, and reduces itself by 2% marginal population while increasing its rate of employment 5%?

More new jobs have appeared than new Americans. America has become prosperous, and its population has expanded as the wage slave society has broken away, allowing desperate two-income families to become one-income families with more economic freedom. People have painted the change as the destruction of the American economy as the labor force participation rate grew ("We're getting poorer! Housewives must work alongside their husbands or their families starve!") and as it shrinks ("We're losing jobs! Well, not actual jobs, we've got more of those as a percentage of population... but less of the population is expressing a NEED to work! They must have just given up on living!").

I can't tell which of you are liars and which of you are fools.