清洁技术泡沫会破裂吗?

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波士顿—经济泡沫现在很有名,十年前互联网泡沫的破裂使泡沫破裂臭名昭著。昨天在Going Green East会议上,一个专家小组最终进行了一场生动、有趣,有时甚至激烈的辩论,辩论内容是关于所谓的清洁技术(可再生能源和环境友好型技术)的增长是否已进入泡沫阶段,如果泡沫正在破裂...或者泡沫是否曾经存在过。

对于阅读这些文字的任何人来说幸运的是,Always On的会议组织者录制了小组讨论的视频,并已将其发布到网上供观看。(使用 此链接 然后向下滚动页面三分之二,找到嵌入的会议标题“清洁技术泡沫?”。)前10分钟包含两位主要技术快速发展先驱的一些最精彩的观点,包括发明以太网并推动互联网蓬勃发展的Bob Metcalfe,以及对热门电信技术及其背后的宠儿公司做出预测,极大地助长了互联网泡沫的George Gilder。如果您听得更久,您会听到所有四位小组成员最终抨击对各种技术的补贴,这本身就值回票价——在这种情况下,票是免费的。

泡沫照片来自iStockphoto/Pgiam

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 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: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 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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