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Like the author I'm also 68 years old I'm a contributor to the open source of TensorFlow and dozens of other code projects that the youngsters today often take for granted

I'm still very active I build cities for a living and I'm about to publish a new paper that bills a form of mathematics that more closely models the structure of our universe

I'm a co-author on a paper recently published on a practical form of quantum communications

In my youth I solved dozens of mathematical problems that others considered unsolvable

The world and the universe is an amazing place and age is really just part of our imagination

I also stay active everyday and contribute to my community

This is a great story and a reminder of how valuable our ancestors are to our everyday lives

Consider for a moment the reverence the typical first Nation communities have for the experience and wisdom of their elders

This is a horrible idea, California doesn't have the ability to enforce such a law, and hackers would simple operate from outside California

Bad idea

Sorry to see your unhappy with Google Fi - I switched from previously having Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T - and what a difference.

Now that said, the one major observation I see about Google, Apple, Amazon, Yahoo, etc. is that Google does not have a lead Architect for Google products and services. The company is certainly leading the charge with technology - yet there is no one taking the charge of bringing everything together.

This reminds me of the early days of Apple - remember the Newton? Wow a computer you could hold in your hand - and the tech community were all wowed - yet the consumer didn't understand what to do with it - they were not coders and until it did something it was just another piece of tech. Then 3Com came along and created the Palm Pilot - and the handheld computer took off.

That said - I believe this is why Google like Microsoft and Apple have such a customer service problem - they have simply become tech company - customers are just a part of their products and don't receive the attention of an advocate within the company's product development team.

Open Access will always win, the question is how to take content to the next level. For example providing free open access to content is the product Google, Yahoo, FaceBook offer. The real question is how to take content, music, novels, academic papers, etc. into the value chain.

Artists will always produce inspiring things, they get paid however only when that inspiration creates value, so the question is how to measure that value and return to the creator of value. This seems simple enough – measure, gather, settle, return. For example, our system of transportation paid for by the community of interest – yet it returns value in the form of supporting a supply chain. Indirect, but successful.