Augustus Doricko

This tech is going to be

Maybe the most consequential, if not the second or third most consequential technology in the 21st century, I think the first is going to be, well, I mean, maybe there's four.

It's really like AI, nuclear energy, rocketry, and weather modification.

Those are the things that are going to make our descendants' lives look fundamentally, totally different from anything that any other human has experienced.

But if we regulate it in a smart way and permit it to happen,

in a way that benefits people, that's like a no-brainer.

Having the most cost-effective way to produce more water when you want it, why would you pass up on that if you can prove that it's safe?

I think people, you know,

Yeah, and it's worth asking that question, right?

But one, we have 80 years of data on its safety and on its efficacy.

To reason by analogy, right?

Like, California's Central Valley, it used to be a mix of desert and swamp.

It was a wasteland at the beginning of the 1900s.

And because we built new infrastructure, had new technologies for pumping water and desalinating water, we turned that into the most productive agricultural region in the United States.

It feeds tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions, people around the world and produces, like, what, 40% of all of our fruit?

We changed that ecosystem and it was way better for everybody else.

So should we regulate these things?

Should we be cautious and like do it maybe with relatively slowly or with just caution, at least totally.

But every day that goes by that people don't have enough water, you know, I view it to some extent as like,

guilt on me for not having made enough water to feed more people, to make everyone's lives better.