In this case it's pretty much a rounding error. Median net worth for college-educated people in the US is < 300K [0] (and it drops fast for all other cases), so it's not far off from the annual income. You could plug the actual educational attainment distribution [1] and get finer numbers, but it won't change much for the purposes of this comparison.
I think that's a fantastic strategic move, even though I'm usually not a GCP/ Google fan. The idea that you have to constantly disrupt yourself, and even have to cannibalize your own revenue in business to stay alive, is well understood. An idea, that in my opinion, is generally not understood at all even by CEOs. Most would rather hold on to their last penny until getting disrupted and becoming insignificant.
They made a Mistake at Teleportation: "The technology will exist that will allow for the “faxing” (teleportation- sending/receiving) of actual inanimate objects, such as text books, clothing, jewelry and the like."
This is TRUE, and can be easily done with 3D printers. Note that "faxing" by definition is not "teleportation", but "copying at a different location", which is exactly what 3D printing is.
Exciting! Please be much more specific on your webpage "much faster" (so... 2X, or 10X, ... or just 10%)? Also for "requires only few MB". What are "few MB" for you? 1? 10? 100? :) Please be specific with all your claims and measure everything, to be more credible and useful.
Live CD is ~65MB (the website says the core fits on a 1.44MB floppy). It boots in less than one second (VirtualBox using defaults for "unknown OS"). Mouse and keyboard are working but are not fit for real use.
65MB seems big if compared to Tiny Core Linux for example, which is 11MB: http://tinycorelinux.net/ Maybe it's packing more features than Tiny Core Linux though, unsure.
