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Oct 2019
33m 33s

The Race for Space, and the Invasion of ...

TED Audio Collective / Youngme Moon, Mihir Desai, & Felix Oberholzer-Gee
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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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