Half of Twitter’s spending has been wasted or ineffective. It will be super easy for Elon Musk (or anyone competent) to make Twitter far more profitable. Twitter has been spending 25% of its revenue on Research and Development and 23% on marketing. However, the number of Twitter users has been flat since 2014. Elon Musk …
Tesla had more net income than GM and ford in Q1 2022. Total Q1 vehicle sales: • GM: 1,427,000 (down -19.5% YoY) • Ford: 970,000 (down -9% YoY) • Tesla: 310,048 (up +67.7% YoY) Total Q1 net income: • Tesla: $3.3B (+607% YoY) • GM: $2.9B (-3% YoY) • Ford: $2.3B (if not including $5.4B …
The Technological Singularity prediction is something that has been very dominant in Future predictions for two decades. Before the dominant anticipation of a technological singularity that there was the dominant future prediction of widely anticipated Nuclear Age, Space Age and computer ages. The first space age happened and there was the moon landing and satellites …
When looking at the rise of renewable energy, it would surprise some people to know that since 2000, global hydroelectric power additions almost match the increase in wind power and both have increased more than solar energy. The global energy mix has shifted slightly away from coal power. Wind and solar power are continuing to …
The world of manufacturing has evolved. There is now an expectation to stay up-to-date on necessary technology and digital applications. It might seem daunting for manufacturing companies to keep up with demand and stay ahead of the competition. This is especially true for smaller companies when they think about shifting toward digital operations. Thankfully, the …
Ramez Naam is a Futurist who wrote on transhumanism and accurately predicted the growth of Solar Energy and batteries for over ten years. Ramez recently had a lengthy interview published at noahpinion on substack. Here are some prior videos where Ramez gave talks. Here are some updated opinions and predictions from Ramez. 1. Putin’s invasion …
As a service to those who have outrage-induced amnesia or to those who are just ignorant of facts, I will remind everyone that the very richest owning media companies is the rule. Elon Musk, the World’s wealthiest owning media company Twitter will not be an exception. We can go down a partial list. Charles Ergen …
First Light used a large two-stage hyper-velocity gas gun to launch a projectile at a target, containing the fusion fuel and achieved fusion. The projectile reached a speed of 6.5 km per second before impact. First Light’s highly sophisticated target focuses this impact, with the fuel accelerated to over 70 km per second (151,000 mph) …
Hawaiian Airlines today became the first major airline to announce an agreement with Starlink to provide complimentary high-speed, low-latency broadband internet access to every guest onboard flights between the islands and the continental U.S, Asia and Oceania. Hawai‘i’s largest and longest-serving carrier will equip its Airbus A330 and A321neo aircraft, as well as an incoming …
Tesla Full Self Driving beta is being used by over 100,000 people. Normally 100,000 US drivers have 12.4 fatal accidents each year. This is over one fatality per month. Normally 100,000 drivers would have 163 accidents with injuries each month. There are so far no reported injury or fatality accidents after over four months of …
Elon Musk has bought Twitter using $21 billion in cash and $25.5 billion in debt. The deal must still be approved by a vote of the shareholdrs. I hope that even my worst critics remain on Twitter, because that is what free speech means — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2022 The transaction was unanimously …