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The correction facility where they are locked up happens to be right in the middle of one of my usual trips, and it's surrounded by barbed wires and electric gates and armed guards.
And when it gets decoupled, we might find that democracy, the multitude of voices, actually impedes capitalism because a state that does not have any pretense of limited government can very quickly mandate a regulatory framework for drones, for electric cars, for self-driving cars, for any new innovation where they feel that they can leapfrog Western societies.
The whole thing is electric, the restaurant and the kitchen.
So there's a much better analogy that allows you to be incredibly optimistic and that analogy is the electric industry.
And there are a lot of similarities between the Internet and the electric industry.
And the part of the electric revolution that I want to focus on is sort of the golden age of appliances.
This is work going on down in lower Manhattan where they built some of the first electric power generating stations.
And the electric fan was a big success.
The electric iron, also very big.
This is the electric tie press, which never really did catch on.
These never really caught on either: the electric shoe warmer and drier.
They hadn't invented the electric socket yet.
Everybody wanted one of these electric washing machines.
So you'd take the clothes out of here, put them in here, and then you'd run the clothes through this electric wringer.
And as I said before, they hadn't invented the electric outlet either, so the washing machine was a particularly dangerous device.
So I thought, okay, I'll try and make an electric toaster from scratch.
And, working on the idea that the cheapest electric toaster would also be the simplest to reverse-engineer, I went and bought the cheapest toaster I could find, took it home and was kind of dismayed to discover that, inside this object, which I'd bought for just 3.49 pounds, there were 400 different bits made out of a hundred-plus different materials.
Dale Dougherty: These are electric muffins.
Muffin: Will you glide with us? (Guy: No.) DD: I know Ford has new electric vehicles coming out.
And they really practice what they preach because this office doesn't have any electric lighting at all.
And we hope that the poor people will get into the electric light.
Well it's 150 times more resistant to electric current than that salt dough.
What we do is make a very simple electric motor.
In his study, Darwin actually cited a French neurologist, Guillaume Duchenne, who sent electric jolts to facial muscles to induce and stimulate smiles.
We're starting to sell electric cars, which is great.
The city of Masdar in Abu Dhabi uses driverless electric vehicles that can communicate with one another, and they go underneath the city streets.
What they did was they hooked up Harvard undergraduates to an electric shock machine.
And they gave them a series of painful electric shocks.
And for that I do not need an electric grid between us.
Today, if you buy a hybrid or an electric vehicle, you'll almost certainly see the product of a hundred million dollars' worth of tooling and research and development, in the form of a Tamagotchi-style game, in a dashboard designed to make you a more ecological driver.
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