It was some time in my to-read list and I haven't really got through. This weekend I then read The Black Swan of Nassim Thaleb and his theory made me think a lot. How we think we know things and assess opportunity and risk. His deep and wide reference in philosophy, history, mathematics and economics and juxtaposition of sceptical empiricism vs. platonic approach. I discovered Hayek and Popper who I read in my studies and Mandelbrot whose elegant random and self afine fractals I always felt some fascination for. Actually, Nassim Thaleb dedicated the book to Mandelbrot.
This week, I met Jack Hidary who works hard on fostering clean tech energies in the US. He and his group just achieved to preserve a huge tax break in the bail out legislation that passed congress lately. When I asked Jack on the progress in energy efficient technologies, he said me that there is so much capital, HR and intensity in this field now that a Green Swan may occur which brings a dramatic drop in alternative energy cost. I liked this metaphor.Obviously we live in swan times.
I read the black swan, too. It does make you think, doesn´t it?
The green swan is nice, but what is coming is free energy. It´s around and the points where it surfaces become more and more. I don´t believe everything I see, but I watch this stuff very carefully.
Also watch a docu on Nikola Tesla. He was probably very close to transmitting electricity without wires - if he has not done so already back then.
And what regards free energy, here´s another, well, thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efCelx7qe_M
Posted by: Vasco | October 27, 2008 at 10:01 AM