MacGyver needs to show an imprint on a floorboard to someone. Pull
out your phone and take a picture! No, in 1986

he MacGyvers a chisel
and hammer and pries the floorboard up.

Even in 1996 the telcos and most of the public thought

dedicated copper and fiber connections were needed for reliable communications.
(“Allison, can you explain what the Internet is?”)

But now you can pull out your phone and take a picture and post it over the packet-switched Internet to facebook for all the world to see.

In 2023 baseload nukes and coal plants and oil pipelines will be like
phone booths connected by dedicated copper, while rooftop solar charging
cars will be as common as phones in your pockets.
Solar power will win like the Internet did,
beating all other sources of power within a decade.

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