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Peter Diamandis on stage for the Half-lifetime achievement award. They had me privatizing the FDA… see below…
10 responses to “Autodesk’s International Design Innovation Awards 2025”
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I did testify to the White House:
We are entering an intellectual Renaissance in medicine, but the pace of progress is limited by a bureaucracy that evolves at a glacial pace, relative to the technological opportunities that it regulates.
Reengineering the FDA and Medicare: No small feat, but this should be a joint optimization. Medicare has the de facto role to establish reimbursement policy, and it often takes several years after FDA approval for guidelines to be set. This could be streamlined, and shifted to a parallel track to the FDA approval process so that these delays are not additive.
The FDA processes and policies will need to undergo profound transitions to a future of personalized and regenerative medicine. The frustration and tension with the FDA will grow with the mismatch between a static status quo and an exponential pace of technological process. Exponential? Consider that 80% of all known gene data was discovered in the past 12 months. In the next 20 years, we will learn more about genetics, systems biology and the origin of disease than we have in all of human history.
Tesla Motors won the Transportation Design category
Rachel Tyrell waltzed off with the prize in Artificial Intelligence
And BioLogyc cleaned up in Biological Design.
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[http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson] Steve, here is an article I think you shouldn’t miss:
inthesetimes.com/article/14586/milwaukees_best_farmer_wil…I get the feeling there is an enormous future in this.
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I just finish looking at your 10 minutes video (Steve Jurvetson on Tesla Motors, SpaceX and SME business opportunities ). Very cool soul you are Steve…connected to an amazingly smart brain. Also looked at the video of Tesla (Megafactories Tesla Model S). WOW. Made me change my perception concerning this car of the future. 20,000 cars a year under $50,000.00 a unity. Quite impress with the lack of transmission, regeneration of battery by braking. One pedal driving (the car stopping by letting the gas pedal free).
I guess I wont have to wait twenty years to buy one for Epp. Because of the "LOW COST STAGE THREE" next step. Electric car by the millions. Love the idea, like so many of us.
Question that was not mentioned: How do they keep it warm in temperatures like in Québec? Heating is very energy consuming.
Thanks so much for all those insights you bring me and sorry for my english.
Have a great week.P.S. Now reading that book you mentioned …rendez-vous with Rama. Love it….thank again.
denis
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So glad you like the book. It was one of the first sci fi books that I read, along with the Niven’s Ringworld.
Unlike many battery experiences we are familiar with in other products, Tesla runs liquid around every cell to regulate temperature. So, by rough approximation, assume the cells are at the ideal temperature, but that itself consumes some energy to maintain.
From the sales map, I see that one of the first 1000 cars went to Quebec City, and several others followed in Montreal.
And from a recent Tesla blog post:
Tesla technology is designed and tested to operate well in both hot and cold climates. Indeed, our highest per capita sales are in Norway, where customers drive our cars during Arctic winters in permanent midnight, and in Switzerland, high among the snowy Alps. About half of all Tesla Roadster and Model S customers drive in temperatures well below freezing in winter. While no car is perfect, after extremely thorough testing, the Model S was declared to be the best new car in the world by the most discerning authorities in the automotive industry.
Actually, that is an understatement. Here is my collection of quotes from the product reviews… =)
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Just read your "collection of quotes" My four favorites 1: " If the car’s appeal can be transferred to higher-volume models, the Model S could become the Model T of an approaching petroleum-free era.
2 ”…as a whole, the Model S feels and drives like the future. It’s a rolling testament to the potential of automotive innovation, and a massive leap forward”
3: It’s an eye-opener like the automotive world has never seen in its entire history."
4 The U.S. is back. But it is not GM, Ford, or Chrysler that demonstrates what a car of the future can look like, but a small manufacturer from California. Starting from nothing Tesla has created a gorgeous, technically convincing business sedan"
I believe starting tomorrow, people around me will be earring about this new revolutionary car.denis
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The technical perfection of the car is no guarantee of anything, Americans have always bought crappy cars in droves it they were well marketed. Like all good salesmen, Americans are the most gullible suckers themselves for a slick sales pitch. The question will be whether Tesla captures the American romance with cars… if it does it may very well succeed, it doesn’t it will become a fantastic collectors item.
IMHO if we are serious about climate change and energy waste, good, cheap, public transport and reviving the city centers will be the answer… certainly in the next 20 years or so.
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