清潔技術泡沫會破裂嗎?

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波士頓—經濟泡沫現在很有名,十年前網際網路泡沫的破裂使泡沫破裂臭名昭著。昨天在Going Green East會議上,一個專家小組最終進行了一場生動、有趣,有時甚至激烈的辯論,辯論內容是關於所謂的清潔技術(可再生能源和環境友好型技術)的增長是否已進入泡沫階段,如果泡沫正在破裂...或者泡沫是否曾經存在過。

對於閱讀這些文字的任何人來說幸運的是,Always On的會議組織者錄製了小組討論的影片,並已將其釋出到網上供觀看。(使用 此連結 然後向下滾動頁面三分之二,找到嵌入的會議標題“清潔技術泡沫?”。)前10分鐘包含兩位主要技術快速發展先驅的一些最精彩的觀點,包括髮明乙太網並推動網際網路蓬勃發展的Bob Metcalfe,以及對熱門電信技術及其背後的寵兒公司做出預測,極大地助長了網際網路泡沫的George Gilder。如果您聽得更久,您會聽到所有四位小組成員最終抨擊對各種技術的補貼,這本身就值回票價——在這種情況下,票是免費的。

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Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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