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I don't have a source but I remember a panel discussion when Page came up with the idea to build a floating city in international waters. This way they could ov
by lukasben 9y ago
I don't have a source but I remember a panel discussion when Page came up with the idea to build a floating city in international waters. This way they could overcome the governmental regulations that slow down innovation, taxes etc.
I can't help but think about Toronto as a testing ground for that. Add facebooks flying internet drones plus some space X space infrastructure. Sounds pretty cool to me.
- Heliosmaster 9y agoIf they can't pull it off, nobody will imho. But on the other hand, it's not like people haven't tried before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation
- matt4077 9y agoHow do taxes slow down innovation–considering all R&D costs can be deducted, and taxes only apply to profits? And which regulations, specifically, are holding back innovation at Google? Would their floating city allow me (to use one of your examples) to conduct rocket launches in my backyard?
- lukasben 9y agoI'm not from the US and the discussion was mostly about regulations from the states but what I got from it was: - foreign skilled workforce is from their perspective still to hard to employ (and the Muslim Ban could be an good example for that) - think about the massive amount of money that Apple has offshore because it's to expensive to bring it back to the US! Put that investment into R&D and the effect would be tremendous. - I don't know how high the cost for using the public infrastructure is in the US but building it from ground up and managing it by yourself might be cheaper (I assume thats what the Toronto project is all about). - do some research on costs for positions like "Governmental Relations Manager". google made some bad experiences in China with that