Edited by Laurence B. SiegelApril 2023Special to AJO Vista On February 25, 2023, I heard Mark Mills, a physicist, venture capitalist, and author of The Cloud Revolution, which I reviewed in this space on April 6, 2022, speak at a meeting of the Global Interdependence Center in La Jolla, California.
Why Are Elephants So Smart and Buildings So Short?
We can and do build very tall skyscrapers. But they are impractical money losers because so much floor space is taken up by elevators. A new book explains the interplay between size and scale, and what it means for our economy and investments. Vaclav Smil, the 80-year-old Czech-Canadian scientist whom Bill Gates cites as his favorite author, rarely disappoints. Smil’s …