He was a person still in the process of evolving himself. He still had many flaws that he was unable to correct before he died. But from what I could tell he was making progress on those aspects right up until his death. Unfortunate. Still, he led a pretty good life everything considered.
Best choice is to follow the wishes of the person who’s in the heat of the battle. Be cognizant that those wishes may change as the illness progresses. Do it as being of maximal service to the loved one.
Have you tried psychedelics? They’ve been reported as being effective at setting the world straight for many people. Probably need to do a good deal of research first, and conventional medical information sources will probably be unhelpful.
So if you make your motor 10 pounds lighter you win? Heck, my backpack is 10 pounds. And a motor can only be 100% efficient, and they're at 97% now. Naw, I'll take my non-slipring motors.
How about dropping the Hyperloop evacuated tube idea and replace it with something more achievable? How about a private roadway that is completely flat and only for specially-equipped electric cars? The cars are completely autonomous and communicate with neighboring cars and a central traffic controller. The cars can tailgate each other in complete safety at 200-250 mph allowing for extremely dense road usage (no 9 car lengths separations). And all the traffic will move at exactly the same super-high speed, carefully servoed.
People can just get in using their own privately-owned certified compliant electric cars. And then take a nap as the autonomous driving takes over for safe high-speed travel. No traffic jam slowdowns, no slowpokes in your lane. Road-embedded power can wirelessly beam energy so there is no need for refueling stations. Traffic control manages vehicles entering and leaving the roadway. Read the news or take a nap. SF-to-LA in 2hrs, and you arrive rested and with your car.
Not the hyperloop, but drastically cheaper and leveraging technology that's coming anyway. The novelty is drastically higher speeds, bumper to bumper driving, continuous fueling.
Some of this may be misdirection. VR is getting tremendous attention and will be very competitive. Look how he backed away from mobile. Complaining about wires and resolution? They're getting new revs every 12-18 months now. Look for hidef wireless hmds in 20-36 months, not 20 years. No physics? Look again. I think he wants to avoid competitive low margin businesses when better choices are available.
>Look for hidef wireless hmds in 20-36 months, not 20 years.
How do you suppose that will happen? On-device computing hardware or a wireless tether?
The latter appears to only be maybe possible with microwave radio, but requires constant line of sight which is a huge issue.
The former may be possible depending on your definition of hidef. IMO I doubt it though, much of what makes VR immersive is having a HMD lightweight/comfortable enough that you forget it's on. That's hard enough when the only hardware in the HMD is essentially screens and an IMU. I can't imagine the added weight of CPU/GPU/batteries/etc not making a significant enough impact on comfort to make it not worth it, in the next 20-36 months.
For reference, my standard of hidef VR right now, not in 20-36 months, is Vive level resolution/FOV/tracking accuracy and latency; I wouldn't put GearVR in that group, or any platform without submillimeter positional tracking for that matter.
Great as always telling us where we are. Not so great telling us where we're going, where the big financial bets are (she's a VC and should know), what are the significant new technology themes. I was hoping for an opportunity roadmap as seen by KPCB. Just got more ads, more smartphones, more retail. No bitcoin, VR, drones, bioinformatics, energy, or US financials as in years past.
