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Nathan Myhrvold He did this cool TED talk about shooting mosquitos out of the air with lasers salvaged from commodity electronics. Since that was years ago, i
by joshuaellinger 13y ago
Nathan Myhrvold
He did this cool TED talk about shooting mosquitos out of the air with lasers salvaged from commodity electronics. Since that was years ago, it appears that it is doesn't work in the real world. Par for the course with TED.
A prominent malaria expert tore into him for exploiting a real crisis that kills millions to make his company actually does something good for the world. Going all hi-tech hero when what is really needed in low-tech nets.
So I'll go with evil for $500. Nice cuddly evil but evil nonetheless.
- psbp 13y agoWe don't need solutions. We need big corporations to accrue patents and public approval so that they can steamroll the rest of the industry many years down the line. It's called charity™
- joezydeco 13y agoHey but now when someone does get the bugLaser working, he can be there with prior art AND a patent to collect upon.