I tell my kids that, rather than spending time on YouTube or Video Games, why not create those games they would want to see? With AI, you can start d… - Peter Diamandis

About ten years later, in March 2018, Waymo purchased that fleet, buying twenty thousand sporty, self-driving Jaguars for its forthcoming ride-hailing service. With this many cars, Waymo intends to deliver a million trips per day in 2020 (this might be ambitious but Uber currently delivers 15 million rides a day).

Greenblatt is not alone in this assertion. Many believe water is an issue of money and will be best solved locally, and without the aid of techie gizmos. It’s an opinion based on hindsight. The last century saw governments dithering while they searched for a high-tech, silver-bullet solution. Millions died in the interim, and the world is full of gadgets either unsuitable for the ruggedness of their deployment area or impossible to maintain because supply chains did not extend far enough.

Wright's Law > Moore's Law.
Stop making time-based predictions. Start making unit-based ones.
For every cumulative doubling in production, costs fall at a consistent rate. Reusable rockets. Industrial robots. Solar panels. Batteries.
This is the formula that predicts the future.