This week, more futurology than you can shake a digital stick at, google craziness, lab grown meat, and a lot more.
Notes:
Portland has all the ports to get to the magic place called Internet.
On that AM (artificial meat): 30% of world population is allergic to something. Reasons are still unknown. And some people are really going to take the risk of adding something to the equation? That 30% is from 2010 and was rising back then, it is still rising in 2016!
One step at a time!
deskmats! :D
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http://www.epicpants.com/t-shirts/tek-syndicate-desk-mat-90cm-x-25cm-x-2mm
Solar and wifi.and batteries...Just that could connect the world
@wendell wondered what instrument Bernie Sanders would play on 'Politician's Got Talent'.
When Bernie was on Colbert, Stephen dug up a snippet of his reggae album. Bernie rapping "This Land is my Land" to a Casio reggae beat was hilariously awful. Colbert praised Senator Sanders for ignoring public opinion polls because obviously nobody would ever ask for that.
I regret not saving up for a car so that I can go to LANSyndicate. Hopefully it will be awesome and there will be more in the future
The Tek 0218 TOC completed with revision. Please reply on any errors.
0:00 Intro
0:10 Show Starts
2:01 Deskmats arrived on Epic Pants and Lan Syndicate information.
4:31 By 2020, more people will own a phone than have electricity.
9:53 Google removes Samsung's first Android ad blocker from the Play Store.
13:38 Google now blocking websites that show fake download buttons.
14:43 Would you buy smartphone service from Comcast? You may get the chance.
17:53 Google Fiber's plan to give free Internet to the poor.
20:56 PGP co-founder: Ad companies are the biggest privacy problem today, not governments.
26:27 Google to test out self-driving cars in Kirkland, Washington.
27:52 Google: big bets on future tech are sign of an empire bidding for immortality
33:55 Patreon
37:19 Zweihander discography and game development.
37:55 Singtel pushes 10Gbps service to Singapore homes.
41:04 Samsung is actually building trucks with screens on the back so drivers can see the road ahead.
41:51 You could be eating lab-grown meat in just five years.
45:38 MIT's 168-core chip could make mobile devices, robots smarter.
49:26 Using brain electrodes researchers were able to read minds almost at the speed of thought.
52:24 Scientists can now radically expand the lifespan of mice and humans may be next.
54:11 Wendelstein 7-X fusion device produces its first hydrogen plasma.
57:51 Stephen Hawking: Disaster on Earth is becoming a 'near certainty'.
1:03:36 Epic Games reveal building in Unreal Engine 4 VR Editor video.
1:05:22 Left 4 Dead 3: Release date and new characters unveiled?
1:05:51 Doom – Campaign Trailer
1:08:01 Closure
(As a small critique, it would be great if you guys can have a TOC ready when you release each Tek in the future.).
I would 100% eat lab-grown beef if it could somehow not include the allergens that make beef (quite literally) potentially lethal to me.
What is an Orville pallet?
@wendell On behalf of Australia I accept your sympathy. I struggle to get a solid 5Mb and I consider anything in the double digits to be awesome; it's terrible.
So if lab grown meat, becomes cheaper and tastes just as good as actual beef. How long until beef cattle go extinct? Less than a generation? Or do you think they will survive as a delicacy? Becoming a luxury for the super rich or can afford the real thing.
I think they will eventually die out. As they have been domesticated for one purpose. Just like a household dogs or cats struggle to survive on their own if they are abandoned. I do not now if they could survive on their own.
For some reason this makes me laugh. Not because I want to see a species go extinct, but because as the popularity of lab grown meat increases. I think thousands of animal activists will insist everyone must switch to the new meat. This eventual switch will lead to, at the very least a massive drop in overall population of the animals they were trying to save.
ethical centacow, truly the future, also wendell, It is interesting that we could be only months away from a net positive energy source, that would be interesting, we could be on the verge of a new age of mankind
Thing about growing meat..Real meat works out and changes...Grown meat is like eat babies. Who wants to eat babies.
Actually, veal, so lots of people apparently.
Something that I think that you guys missed about Google giving free internet to low income housing is that they are still trying to spread their reach and set up an infrastructure. I don't know about now, but when Google fiber was first starting up, they would let you pay for installation (which was like $300 or something) and then get free 5mbps internet (or something along those lines) with the option to have gigabit. They are trying to get their infrastructure down and doing free things for the poor is a good way to kill two birds with one stone. They are getting good press/reminding people that google fiber is still spreading while simultaneously laying more last mile line.
Try ? Test subjects It's okay because it is free. :)
I have a suggestion: Tanks. I live in CA and our eight weeks of sweater weather is coming to an end, you want me to buy more merch? Gimme a triblend tank, because I already have too many long sleeves and tees that never get worn.
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Some thoughts I've had rattling in my head about what I expect for the ISP market in the US assuming we continue down the current state where companies own and operate their own independent last mile infrastructure.
To begin, I think it's good to identify the current state of their infrastructure management. They are trying to bleed every last bit of revenue out of existing infrastructure. They are delaying the inevitable but the more they bleed they hope the more they have built up in the coffers for the battle ahead.
The battle that is coming will be playing a game of chicken in each market they serve between themselves and every other provider also operating on old infrastructure. However in this game of chicken it's not necessarily the first one to blink that will lose. That "blink" is when one provider finally throws in the towel and starts their overbuild for FTTP. This means they have decided that trying to bleed any more revenue out of their dated infrastructure is actually going to cost them more or lose enough customers it's in their best interest to replace it.
The problem for all of their competitors is do they jump in as well and begin the overbuild to state competitive, or wait and see if their competitor falls flat and potentially get their infrastructure for a steal. I have my doubts that many will join in on overbuilding at the same time due to the cost. What I think is most likely to happen is the competitors who waited will just do the minimum to sustain the existing infrastructure until they either lose enough customers to abandon the market, or they are able to reap that competitors infrastructure if they fail. If they are able to get the competitors infrastructure, which they didn't do the investment into building, their finances come out looking great.
What I see this heading is an even less competitive market than we see today. The current competitiveness has rarely been the result of competing Internet services. DSL and DOCSIS are both adaptations of transmitting data services over mediums that were originally intended for non-overlapping services, phone and video. This is in significant contrast to the shift which happens with the migration to fiber to the premises, because those technologies have been developed from the ground up as a data delivery service first.
This is just my current hypothesis, and its mostly based on what I've been reading in the news and what I've seen occurring where I live. Locally we have a municipal ISP who converted from DOCSIS to GPON (FTTP), and Mediacom and CenturyLink are the competitors. Working for the municipal ISP it's been pretty clear that Mediacom is doing pretty minimal work to maintain their infrastructure.
The only time Mediacom appears to try competing is when it's multi-dwelling units which sign term contracts that ensure they will get income for a while. We have had some of these come back to us after having horrible experiences with Mediacom and they realize sticking with them is painful and isn't worth the reduced price.
CenturyLink has even gotten to the point of not building out their copper plant to reach new residential developments. We don't even offer voice service yet, but we have heard they have chose not to build because they expect we will eat the market away shortly after, so investing in the infrastructure isn't going to pay off.
CenturyLink is one of the service providers that has started to overbuild their existing copper plant with FTTP in some markets. I think those will be ones to keep an eye on and see if other ISPs overbuild as well and try to compete, or if they give up and just maintain as long as it's profitable.
Another datapoint is that some of these service providers might be waiting for the right FTTP technology to mature before jumping into the market. PON technologies are at a point where a significant change is just starting with NG-PON2 and XGS-PON nearing general availability. I know Calix is supposed to be bringing these to market later this year, and CenturyLink is one of their big customers. This video demonstration shows just how significant of an upgrade it is.
I want to clarify something he says in the video. He mentions 100Gbps in the access network, and what he means by that is 100Gbps in aggregate, with 50Gbps in each direction.
Awesome episode! Extremely informative and full of deep thinking. Thanks so much for this great entertainment. This definitely was one of the better episodes in awhile. Uh in regards to the idea of you going to see Google test out self-driving cars in Kirkland, Washington I would like to see you do that and make a video about it. As for the news about Left 4 Dead 3 I was shocked that they are making a new one and with that said yes it does give me hope that there will eventually be a Half Life 3. Eh anyway so much I want to comment on but I am too tired to continue typing and for some stuff I am too stupid to comment on what was talked about but again thanks for a great show.
PS: If miracles do happen I hope I can find a way to make it to the Tek Syndicate LAN Party but not sure I can pull it off yet so I haven't bought a ticket.
this. Tek tanks please. specifically, racerbacks for ladies.
also, 3/4 sleeve shirts.