The innovators.

• Localización: Foreign Policy, ISSN-e 1945-2276, Nº. 203, 2013, págs. 96-97
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The article focuses on three technological innovators, Elon Musk, Geordie Rose, and Thad Starner. It states that in 2013 Musk unveiled the proposal for the Hyperloop, a near-supersonic transport mechanism that would reduce travel time from Los Angeles to San Francisco, California to 35 minutes at a cost of six billion dollars, and mentions his automobile company Telsa Motors would start producing an electric automobile capable of running on autopilot by 2016. It comments that Rose founded the quantum computer company D-Wave Systems which sold its first quantum computer in 2011 to aerospace company Lockheed Martin. It talks about Starner's work on wearable computers and mentions he is a technical manager behind search company Google's Project Glass augmented reality system.