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    Nikhil Reddy

    Nikhil Reddy

    YouTuber, Developer, UC Berkeley EECS Student (@bignikhilreddy)

  • Electric Vehicles Are Taking Over Big Oil and Gas Cars

    If I told automotive manufacturers as few as eight years ago that electric cars would go mainstream, achieve 350 miles on a single charge, and all for the same industrial costs as a comparable petrol counterpart, they’d balk and point me to their post-crisis boom (GM notched $4.7 billion in profits in 2010, their first annual net gain in six years). The oil industry would sweep my pleas into the same vat of filth they let loose into the ocean, and underscore their banner decade of dominance, as their five biggest companies netted $1 trillion in profits from 2001-2011. China has joined France and Britain in their quest to end sales of gasoline/diesel cars, and its engendered a trickle-down wave of progressivism that has hit car manufacturers themselves.

  • Mars and Psychology of Space Travel

    When we think of space travel, or the exploration of the cosmos in general, we are inundated with grandeur notions of enormous spacecraft, thriving multi-planetary civilizations, and awe-inspiring extraterrestrials. Now, keep in mind that this kind of stuff isn’t new – my issue arises in the fact that we let Sci-Fi blockbusters and spaceship launch videos take precedence over these kinds of studies.

  • 3D Printing Could Be Going Mainstream Sooner Than You Think

    It seems like in this age of exploding smartphones, autonomous vehicles, and killer robots, we’ve come to ignore one of the hardest-hitting technologies of the 21st century – 3D printing. Traditionally, we’ve perceived 3D printing as an almost gimmicky, novel practice that thrives in highly funded and covert research labs. Throw in a tinge of realism and a collective effort by some incredibly innovative enterprises, and we now see affordable, effective 3D printers pervade the workspace of universities, edgy designers, and ambitious engineers.

  • Universal Basic Income: The Full Rundown

    If you’ve been paying attention to recent advancements in artificial intelligence (if not, no worries, just check out some of my older work), you’d know that some very smart people posit that 40% of U.S. jobs can be swallowed by automation in the next 25 years. The solution – receiving troves of support from the likes of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Richard Branson – is universal basic income. Universal basic income operates under the fundamental belief that unconditional income would increase job security, mitigate the pangs of work-based stress, and engender the freedom to explore business prospects without monumental risk.

  • Net Neutrality in 2017 - What You Should Know

    My Twitter feed has been immaculately assembled such that every morning I can enjoy raunchy “Game of Thrones” recaps and NBA memes, and my willingness to participate in Reddit AMAs has peaked. Long story short, if ISPs and the FCC get their way, you will no longer have the liberty to have on-command access to any website or online service. Your gateway to the internet will be limited by your budget, as well as what your ISPs have been paid to shove down your throat.

  • Why Air Travel Still Sucks

    What if I told you we haven’t seen a genuine innovation to commercial flight in over 60 years? Air travel was once the giddy fancy of the world – we admired it as a fashionable, enviable experience to behold for yourself, and it’s since devolved into a stagnated industry ignorant of change. Not to mention a slew of tawdry airline incidents being brought to the public attention over the last few months.

  • Our Data Could Be The Biggest Monopoly Ever

    Imagine a commodity that immediately creates an unstoppable, ridiculously lucrative industry force that invades every aspect of our socio-economic infrastructure. Just as Rockefeller’s horizontally-integrated empire controlled the refinery of 90% of the oil sold in the US, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon have continued to shock the world with egregious profits and a very similar stranglehold on the data of internet users.