Jeff Bozos 'I don't see how anybody can be discouraged who is alive right now'

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56. There's still the problem of "the technology isn't there yet"...

And won't "be there" to the scale needed just to support the infrastructure they need for their "Elysium" or whatever it is they're planning for their technocrat's paradise for another 50 years, if they're lucky.
We're hitting the edges of current technology, just as they're cutting the investments and man/brain power needed to bridge the gaps between the physical properties as they are now and the physical properties as they theoretically could be.
We (humans and the LLM auto-correct/auto-complete search engine that's currently being called AI) still haven't really begun to figure out how an organic brain develops consciousness and processes independent, intuitive thought.

Thats when you start getting the AI needed to replace humans and their potential for genius.
We also don't have enough of the technology that's self-replicating, not to mention self-repairing - because the Tech Bros, Corporate Heads, and Financer are addicted to making money instead of science.
Investing in Science means accepting or learning from failure as well as profiting off successes. But Failure is simply unacceptable to those with money or power.
Winner-take-all Wealth Creation or Social Celebrity is now the name of the game, and any whiff of Failure gets you "kicked off the Island" - out of one's circle of peers and any Social Media/marketing interest, into a trash heap, because, frankly, celebrity influencers and experts are fungible.
If you can't follow the "scientific genius" story line and make money or fame quickly, you're just a drone or worse - boring.