by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Technology is making it very easy to create “deepfake” videos that look real and, as you’d expect if you know anything about human behavior, there are growing cases online of people using it to create pornography that appears to involve real people,...
by David Brooks | Feb 14, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
“It costs money to throw out the trash, but recycling, with its halo of virtue and the value of the materials in the marketplace, was a blessed reprieve. “That has long been a fiction, as the cost of dumping garbage subsidizes the cost of recycling. But...
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the state’s least-known billion-dollar companies, Merchants Fleet, has announced their intent to buy 12,600 electric vans from General Motors even though they don’t exist yet, putting it at the forefront of a huge change sweeping through transportation....
by David Brooks | Feb 11, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: Greentech Media (which is disappearing, by the way) has a story about these batteries here: “Plus Power now needs to build the plants: a 150-megawatt/300-megawatt-hour system near a cranberry bog south of Boston, Massachusetts and a...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
Dams seem to be pretty straightforward objects – they’re big things that block water – but a re-licensing effort for three dams on the Connecticut River shows that it can get complicated when electricity is added to the mix. “This would be unique for us,” said John...
by David Brooks | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog, Newsletter
One out of every 3,436 people in Vermont had died of COVID-19 since data began being kept – the best per-capita figure of any state. The figure is 1 out of 2,100 in Maine, the fourth-best (Hawaii and Alaska do better) and 1 out of 1,236 in New Hampshire, the...
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