The target audience for this article is executives at corporate America, who understand very little of tech. It is helpful to understand how the rest of the world looks at tech.
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Interesting. Most people claim both that we will run out of natural resources and that population will grow indefinitely, which is impossible. Cool paper
It is extremely sad that we have not traveled beyond Earth orbit since the end of the Apollo program in 1972. Space exploration inspired many of us to study math and CS and fostered innovation. The majority of the most relevant people in tech in the last 30 years (Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, etc.) have repeatedly commented how the Apollo missions were inspiration for the their studies and careers.