The Race for Space, and the Invasion of the Electric Scooters
After Hours
TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Does Space represent a real economic opportunity or are expensive endeavors like SpaceX a form of billionaire hubris? Youngme Moon , Felix Oberholzer-Gee , and Mihir Desai discuss the Race for Space, before debating the viability of the electric scooter market in cities around the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | Hey listener, a quick favor. |
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| 0:23.4 | slash after hours. Thanks. |
| 0:27.7 | HBR presents. Hi everyone you're listening to after hours I'm young me and I'm here with |
| 0:48.0 | Felix and me here hey guys I'm me hi me here how are you doing Great. This semester is getting through and life is good. |
| 0:55.0 | Students all over campus. It's all good. The chill in the air, it's all perfectly autumnal. |
| 0:59.5 | So I have to say as I was driving in today, I was reflecting on the fact that the three of us have never taught in a program together |
| 1:08.0 | which is why I am so excited that the two of you have agreed to teach in a program with me this winter. |
| 1:16.0 | Did we agree to that? |
| 1:18.0 | It's going to be great. |
| 1:20.0 | It's going to be really fun. |
| 1:21.0 | So I need both of you to bring your best stuff. As always. You need to be |
| 1:25.7 | witty, you need to be charming, you need to be charismatic. That's maybe asking too much. |
| 1:30.7 | It'll be a great pleasure to actually watch you guys teach. In fact, there are times |
| 1:34.6 | when I've wondered if you guys do teach, given the sabbatical or everything. |
| 1:38.0 | Or for any good. Exactly. Yeah, so it'll be fun. We're going to have to behave ourselves though in the classroom together. |
| 1:45.0 | Okay, so we brought topics. |
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