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Predicting when disruptive technologies will occur and the repercussions.

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• TEDCred score: +4.40 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

• A reply on Conversation: What is your New Year's resolutions to change and better the world? This is TED after all.

  Jan 12 2013: The problem is that every usable material in contact with a fission event becomes radioactive, and it remains that way for a very long while. It is not about the reaction itself, it is about the container it is in, the pipes, and the high and low speed neutrons. There is no way to create perfectly pure alloys. How many nuclear plant shave you actually seen decommissioned, and how much has it cost? Look at the decay charts. Humanity has been around for less time than most nuclear waste requires to decay.
  
  Over time nuclear power requires more cost in storage than the energy generated.
  
  Feel free to bury the stuff in your backyard.if you truly believe in this technology.

• A reply on Conversation: What is your New Year's resolutions to change and better the world? This is TED after all.

  Jan 12 2013: The problem with going nuclear is the waste disposal - storage issue. Until we can dump the waste into the sun, or some place else it will not cause an issue, it will remain an issue.
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  A reply on Conversation: How much of a right do students have to questioning and independent thinking?

  Jan 8 2013: "Most people doing the questioning tend to be dumb"
  
  It is the opposite actually, the stupid people do not question. Obvious Troll is obvious.
  
  "TED is a case in point where many educated people are seriously invested in their particular ideological paradigm (capitalist)"
  
  Statement with no proof, and a total straw man.
  
  "This is status quo type thinking that merely reflects the rulers ideology, if you have the same ideology of your rulers, you're more often then not part of the uneducated and illiterate part of the population despite degree's you may possess."
  
  Rant, opinion, straw man, and contradictory to every thing I have seen at TED. People here are trying to tear down walls and are looking towards the future.
  
  Your second comment is just more of the same.
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  A reply on Conversation: How much of a right do students have to questioning and independent thinking?

  Jan 7 2013: Truth be told we are entering an age of abundance in education. You just need one person in a dorm room to pull together khan and other resources in a workable manner.
  
  So your point is moot, everyone with a cellphone or tablet will soon have education available for free.

• A reply on Conversation: How much of a right do students have to questioning and independent thinking?

  Jan 7 2013: I have no Idea why you chose me for your rant. I have zero tolerance for the irrational, the stupid, or the clueless.
  
  "Most people doing the questioning tend to be dumb, TED is a case in point where many educated people are seriously invested in their particular ideological paradigm (capitalist)"
  
  I do not know where to even begin on that ... the rest, you should seek counseling for.
  
  Oh, and along your lines of reasoning. Which party do you normally vote?

• A reply on Conversation: How much of a right do students have to questioning and independent thinking?

  Jan 7 2013: I really do not know what your point was.
  
  My point was simple, technology is empowering people, it has given them access to knowledge unseen since the at library at Alexandria. It has also given them less tolerance for stupidity or lies.

• A reply on Conversation: How much of a right do students have to questioning and independent thinking?

  Jan 7 2013: I do think I answered both parts of the question. One with a snarky remark, the other later on with my response about. "Actually, the federal and state laws, rules .....etc".
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  A comment on Conversation: What are your New Year's resolutions?

  Jan 7 2013: To save the planet, and solve the worlds energy problem with sub $20 per MWh energy. Top that one ;)
  
  http://cleantechnica.com/2012/12/29/using-thermodynamics-100-year-old-technology-to-break-the-20-per-mwh-barrier/
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  A reply on Conversation: Which is more important, to do right or to do good?

  Jan 7 2013: This question is almost the same as the Moral -vs- ethical argument.
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  A comment on Conversation: Which is more important, to do right or to do good?

  Jan 6 2013: Here is the simple solution. Do both, return the money, then buy the beggar a meal with your own money.