There are many places where it is hard to find good math / STEM teachers. Here in Denmark, my kids make some of their math homework on a website, but it could be SOOO much better. A website which adapts it speed to the pupil, and turns out a nice daily report for the teacher showing where he needs to put focus in class... School is definitely THE area where automation is still in its infancy...

That is what everybody gets wrong. Climate change will not kill the planet, not even the eco system. It might however very well kill us. (Or most of us)

but the routing tables once more become more complicated. Shit starts slowing down, there is more room for mistakes in BGP. With all the routers having to do more calculations a gazillion times a day, shit starts using more power. That is right: our refusal to move to IPV6 is increasing our emission of greenhouse gasses

My thermostat will never be connected to anything and does not need an end of life thank you very much. And I want to see the manager who will approve buying this kind of stuff.

For a cabled connection to your desktop, GB ethernet is probably more than you will ever need. How many HD movies can you see at the same time anyway? Is 5G not going to hit the same barrier? Sure there will be some niche applications, but John Doe doesn't need to be able to download an entire movie in 10 seconds. He definitely doesn't need to be able to use his "unlimited data" for a whole month in under a minute.

If production is 10 years from now, we will have hit the concrete wall by then. 2.5 million scans per second is not going to get processed by a 10$ chip. It will be interesting to see how the end of Moore's law will affect this and similar projects.

But the Fins will pass the traffic on to the Germans...

The bridge is also subject of a brilliant TV series featuring a Swedish detective with some serious Asperger issues. Pure Nerd material! (And yes, this is the original, the french/british and the american/mexican ones are the knock-offs).

Here in Denmark bags cost 40 p (3.5 DKK, 0.5 €). I can assure you you start thinking twice before throwing 3 on the belt!

Open Streetmap has (where I live) much better cycling maps than any other. Offline, so no data charges. OSMAND (for android) is free as in beer, and gives you spoken instructions in the language of your choice. And if your favorite track is not on the map, it is very satisfying to draw it yourself and share it with the community.

Safe nuclear power is not a technical problem. It is a political problem. In Fukushima, the authorities knew the generators were crap. So the debate gets a third angle: do you trust the engineers? Well maybe. But do you trust the politicians?

Does that make them "freedom exploits"?

I'm a foreigner. I had the honor to be subjected to both your border guard and TSA. I wouldn't trust them with a fucking fruitcake.

...burning hydrocarbon is the energy source where the biggest part of the cost is payed for by society. Here, fixed that for ya!