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Co-founder and former chief executive of Uber, now chief executive of CloudKitchens and of Adams, an industrial AI company automating food, mining and transport.

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  Ride-hailing is only the gold medal of transport; food delivery, parcels, trucking and off-road autonomy are silver medals each worth hundreds of billions.

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  So, we know Phelps is the gold medals guy, but I like to say that transport is full of silver medals, right? A lot of people think about ride sharing as a gold medal. What about food delivery? What about parcel delivery?

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Historian of maritime strategy at the US Naval War College; wrote The Wars for Asia and works on why continental and maritime powers fight differently.

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  The most consequential international organisation of the last century is the one nobody has heard of: it standardised the shipping container.

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  And then for those of you who are skeptical about international organizations, here's one you've never heard of. The International Organization for Standardization then standardized these container sizes to fit one if by truck, two if by railway cars, and thousands if by sea. And this just plummets transport costs.

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FreeBSD developer and former FreeBSD Security Officer; founder of the Tarsnap online backup service and author of the scrypt key derivation function.

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  End-to-end cryptographic signing of requests and responses is more secure than relying on transport-layer encryption like TLS alone.

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  With requests going over TLS it is obviously less critical now, but end-to-end signing is always going to be better than transport-layer security.

  20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Jobdaemonology.net

Writes Pedestrian Observations on public transit and why infrastructure costs what it does; a pure mathematician by training, comparing how different countries build.

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  Beyond neighbourhood distances, cars and public transport are substitutes for each other, so a trip taken by rail really is a trip not taken by car.

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  Beyond the scale of a neighborhood or maybe a college town, cars and mass transit are substitutes for each other.

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Roboticist; co-founded iRobot and Rethink Robotics, directed the MIT AI Lab, and publishes a scorecard grading his own dated predictions about AI, robots and self-driving.

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  Most of the companies now selling a transport technology will quietly disappear, and the survivors will redefine what they are doing without renaming it.

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  As with self driving cars, most of the early players in humanoid robots, will quietly shut up shop and disappear. Those that remain will pivot and redefine what they are doing, without renaming it, to something more achievable and with, finally, plausible business cases.

  Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01rodneybrooks.com

Novelist, author of twelve books including Foundry, Bandwidth and Cumulus. Sends a newsletter of monthly book recommendations.

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  Trust

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  Trust by Hernan Diaz is an onion of a novel in which every chapter peels back a layer to reveal yet more beneath. Following the meteoric rise of a Wall Street financier in the early 20th century, the intricately plotted story will seduce you, transport you, stimulate you, mislead you, and, ultimately, move you.

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Engineer writing about the physical economy — oil and gas, manufacturing, batteries, drones and what it costs to build things.

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  Most of what a car costs is the weight and structure needed to survive human driving error, not the transport it delivers.

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  Humans being awful drivers leads to a massive increase in vehicle costs and weight, makes cars more dangerous to people outside of them, and imposes significant costs on infrastructure like roads.

  Human Driving Increases Transportation Cost 10xaustinvernon.site

Independent policy analyst on space and national security, formerly of the RAND Corporation, who writes on counterspace weapons and rules for keeping satellites safe.

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  A spacecraft built to service satellites is also a weapon, because the same robotic arm that refuels one can disable one.

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  If a Chinese spacecraft can dock with a friendly satellite to refuel, repair, or transport it, the same robotic arm can also disable a US satellite’s solar panels and antennas. Alternatively, China can use these spacecraft to tow satellites into locations where they can, at best, only sub-optimally perform intended duties such as early warning, surveillance, or geolocation.

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Founded SpaceX in 2002, joined Tesla's board in 2004 and became its chief executive in 2008; later founded Neuralink, The Boring Company and xAI. Bought Twitter in 2022 and renamed it X, where he now posts many times a day.

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  Electrifying transport and heating means electricity output has to triple, because each of the three is about a third of energy use today.

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  So energy usage right now is roughly one third, very rough terms, one third electricity, one third transport, one third heating. And so in order for everything to go sustainable, to go electric, you need to triple electricity output.

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Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner; wrote Feral and Regenesis, and argues for rewilding and against the food system as it is.

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  Long-distance food transport is what stops a local harvest failure from becoming a famine.

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  But without long-distance transport, many more would starve.

  The Cruel Fantasies of Well-Fed Peoplemonbiot.com

Data scientist at Our World in Data and author of Not the End of the World. Writes By the Numbers, working through energy and climate questions with the numbers in front of them, and revising in public when they say something unexpected.

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  Biofuels cannot supply enough energy to matter for a country like Britain or to replace all transport fuels.

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  The US uses a UK-sized amount of land to grow biofuels.4 In return, it accounts for around 10% of the country’s motor gasoline supply.

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Journalist; wrote We Are Eating the Earth on food and climate, and writes the newsletter Emissions.

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  The world spends an area larger than California growing under four per cent of its transport fuel.

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  The world now uses a land mass larger than California to grow less than 4 percent of our transportation fuel.

  A Climate Killer Disguised as a Climate Solutionmichaelgrunwald.substack.com

Economist writing on why technological progress slowed and what would restart it — energy, supersonic flight, housing and the regulations around them.

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  Certification, not engineering, is what gates revenue for a new aircraft company.

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  FAA certification is required before you transport anything for money.

  Cargo airships could be bigelidourado.com