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FAQ & Mythbusting

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Climate Implications

Do we have the minerals and other resources we need to tackle the climate crisis?

Climate Implications

Myth: We will not be able to plant enough trees to be able to re-wild or reforest our ecosystem

Climate Implications

Can we solve our environmental problems by re-designing old systems?

Climate Implications

Myth: Individuals will need to drastically reduce personal consumption to reduce global emissions.

Climate Implications

How can we guarantee that the new system will be better than the old system, and solve the climate crisis?

Climate Implications

What about other environmental issues like biodiversity loss, pollution and clean drinking water?

Climate Implications

Is degrowth a solution to the climate crisis?

Climate Implications

Will a carbon tax on incumbent industries make them go green?

Climate Implications

Won't any climate change solution currently being discussed further drive wealth inequality gaps and disparities?

Climate Implications

Myth: Net zero emissions will be impossible without serious damage to our societies and economies

Climate Implications

Myth: Decarbonizing the global economy is too expensive, and will cost trillions of dollars.

Climate Implications

Myth: It is impossible to keep temperature rise within 1.5 degrees.

Climate Implications

Myth: We don't yet have the technology to solve the climate crisis.

Labor

What does the disruption of labor mean for me and my career, and how should I prepare?

Labor

Doesn't framing the disruption as inevitable shut down debate about whether it should happen in the first place?

Labor

Why does a large robotic workforce automatically mean a large robotic army?

Labor

Myth: People will not be able to find meaning and purpose when there is no work

Labor

How much electricity would a billion robots require, and where does it come from?

Labor

If most people don't work, how is income or resources distributed?

Labor

Myth: AI will create more jobs than it destroys

Labor

Aren't there uniquely human jobs that no machine could ever do?

Labor

How much will robots cost in the future?

Labor

Why will the humanoid form dominate rather than specialized robots?

Labor

Why will all products and services get cheaper, not just some?

Labor

What do you mean by this time we are the horses? Humans are different, we can adapt and retrain!

Labor

Myth: The disruption of labor requires artificial general intelligence (AGI) to happen.

Labor

If labor becomes nearly free, how will people earn a living?

Labor

Why should we think about robots doing tasks instead of jobs?

Labor

When will the disruption of labor occur and how long it take to unfold?

Labor

How can we prepare society for the disruption by humanoid robots?

Labor

What will happen to all the jobs as a result of the disruption of labor by humanoid robotics?

Labor

How can I prepare my industry for the disruption by humanoid robots?

Labor

How will my industry be disrupted by AI & Humanoid Robotics?

Health

What is the advantage to adopting HOTs early?

Health

Which industries face the most severe disruption from HOTs?

Health

Should I take HOTs myself?

Health

Myth: HOTs are just about aesthetics.

Health

How significant are HOTs for treating addiction?

Health

How could HOTs possibly be a geopolitical issue?

Health

Will combining GLP-1s with muscle-gaining drugs be safe?

Health

Why should there be universal access for HOTs?

Health

Aren’t HOTs expensive?

Health

Do we have to take HOTs forever?

Health

How could HOTs possibly be a win for the environment?

Health

Will HOTs only ever be about weight loss?

Health

How can regions accelerate the HOTs disruption

Health

What are the side effects of HOTs?

Health

Why are you calling GLP-1s, HOTs?

Health

What exactly is a Health Optimizer Therapy?

Health

Myth: Muscle building HOTs are no different from steroids.

Health

Why is RethinkX talking about healthcare?

Health

What are myostatin and activin blockers and why have I never heard of them?

Health

Myth: HOTs are just another weight loss drug.

Transportation

Myth: “I could never give up my car!”

Transportation

Will automated vehicles really be safer?

Transportation

Myth: Electric vehicles are too expensive to produce to replace traditional vehicles globally

Transportation

Myth: Roadtrips are impossible with electric vehicles because of the need to recharge. Charging an EV is lengthy and inconvenient

Transportation

Myth: It is impossible to convert the entire global road transportation fleet to electric vehicles

Transportation

Myth: Electric cars require cobalt, the mining of which uses child labor

Transportation

Myth: Robotaxis will never be safe enough

Food & Agriculture

Myth: Modern foods will not contain the same micro- and macro-nutrients as animal foods

Food & Agriculture

How does Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture water use compare to the animal agriculture it will replace?

Food & Agriculture

Why aren’t other modern food technologies disruptive in the same way that Precision Fermentation is?

Food & Agriculture

How much energy do Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture require?

Food & Agriculture

How can we avoid large-scale corporate control of these technologies?

Food & Agriculture

How much waste material is produced by modern foods, and are there any associated environmental risks?

Food & Agriculture

What if I never want to give up my meat?

Food & Agriculture

What will happen to all the cows?

Food & Agriculture

How can we avoid a sudden transition to the modern food system that could threaten the livelihoods of subsistence and artisan farmers and others that work in food production?

Food & Agriculture

Where will Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture technologies be most suited geographically?

Food & Agriculture

How much will the energy for Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture cost?

Food & Agriculture

Myth: The disruption of food and agriculture means that in the future there will be no meat available from animals

Food & Agriculture

Myth: The new modern food system will be centralized and corporation owned, just like the pharmaceutical industry

Food & Agriculture

How can we trust meat, milk or other animal products grown in a lab?

Food & Agriculture

Myth: The companies and products we see today are the future of the food industry

Food & Agriculture

Myth: Cultivated meat is not real meat

Food & Agriculture

What is the difference between Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture?

Energy

What is the role of conventional nuclear power in our energy future?

Energy

Myth: A sustainable energy future will require us to embrace austerity and use less energy

Energy

Myth: Cloudy days present a real challenge to solar, wind and battery meeting daily global energy demands as weather fluctuates

Energy

Myth: Solar, wind and batteries cannot support the entire global population

Food & Agriculture

Myth: Precision Fermentation is only a production method for making proteins

Energy

Can we build batteries fast enough to maintain exponential growth of renewables and electric vehicles?

Transportation

How will the roads be financed when there is no gas tax? Will there be an electronic distance-based toll system?

Energy

Myth: It is impossible to build enough battery storage to power our civilization with clean energy

Energy

Myth: There is not enough lithium on earth for a global electric economy reliant on lithium-ion batteries

Energy

Will the cost of batteries rise because of supply shortages?

Transportation

How many jobs will be created by the disruption of transportation? How many jobs will be destroyed?

Transportation

What will happen to the existing fleet of vehicles as a result of the transportation disruption? Can these vehicles be converted to EVs? A-EVs?

Energy

Does the scarcity of raw materials needed to make lithium-ion batteries mean that we won’t be able to build enough batteries for our energy demands?

Food & Agriculture

Myth: The disruption of food and agriculture means that in the future there will be no meat available from animals

Transportation

Myth: There is not enough lithium to make all the electric cars we need

Transportation

How many autonomous electric vehicles will be needed?

Food & Agriculture

Where will the energy for Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture come from?

Food & Agriculture

How much farmland acreage would be impacted by a transition to Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture food systems?

Food & Agriculture

Myth: Foods made with precision fermentation are GMOs

Food & Agriculture

Myth: Technologies like Precision Fermentation and Cellular Agriculture will not be able to be scaled enough to feed our global population

Energy

Myth: Nickel is a less abundant resource. There is not enough of it to power an electric future

Energy

Myth: It is impossible to have a 100% renewable grid, because it is too inefficient to build solar, wind or battery capacity that we only use for a small fraction of the time

Transportation

Myth: Robotaxi technology does not work and will never work. Driving is too complicated. At best “Level 5”, fully self-driving cars are decades away

Transportation

Myth: Robotaxis cannot take over the market quickly

Transportation

Myth: Robotaxis cannot compete economically with human-driven taxis because of the cost of taxi licenses (‘medallions’)

Transportation

How will the disruption play out in India, Southeast Asia, Africa and other places where consumers are very price-sensitive?

Transportation

Myth: Autonomous vehicles are more dangerous than manual driving

Climate Implications
Food & Agriculture

Myth: Modern foods will have the same environmental impact and drawbacks as animal-based foods

Energy
Food & Agriculture

Myth: A modern food system will demand too much energy to be viable

Food & Agriculture

How will the modern food disruption work in poorer regions and nations around the world?

Food & Agriculture

Myth: Modern foods are only able to replicate the animal products we already have

Food & Agriculture

Myth: Modern foods are, and will forever be, too expensive to compete with animal products

Energy

What is the role of hydrogen in our energy future?

Energy

Are batteries too expensive to build to meet our global energy demands?

Energy

Myth: The same amount of energy is needed for a combustion civilization as an electrified civilization

Energy

Myth: Switching to clean technologies will be expensive, and the cost of converting to an electrified civilization is more than the cost of maintaining the current system

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