ights that were delayed and 900 canceled on Sunday. Nine hundred flights. Nine hundred flights is a lot of flights, isn't it? It feels like everybody would feel that. It doesn't feel like that would just be something that a few people were inconvenienced by.

Well anyway, I wonder about the United States and its ability to fix things. And this will be sort of a meta theme for today's live stream. Why is it that we seem to have lost the ability to do things? Is that purely imaginary? Are we actually better than ever at doing things and it just doesn't seem like it? Or are we trying to do things differently? Or are we in the process of — let's take manufacturing. We might be in the process of leapfrogging the need for lots of humans to manufacture things and then ship them across oceans. We may be leapfrogging that to be the world leader in 3D printing or something. So there's always going to be this destruction period before the rebuilding. So maybe everything that looks like it's breaking is also exactly what you would see before everything improves.

Let me give you an example with airline travel. Probably what's going to change airline travel, this is my guess, is a technological breakthrough. Would you agree? I think a technological breakthrough will change airline travel. Here are two things that almost guarantee it. Well, three things actually. Somebody said facial recognition. Imagine going to the airport and it's all facial recognition so there's no delay. You walk up, it sees your face and says yeah you're okay, and you just walk right in.

Suppose they figure out how to make all airline flights independent of the government so there's no TSA. So let me give you a technological model that would make a lot of flying different. So imagine if electric planes become a thing. So that's the first thing. The first technology is that battery technology has improved to the point where an electric plane is now economical. And not just because of the cost of fuel, but because batteries are getting better. Still, short range is still short range. But remember, if you got rid of all the regional flying that would improve capacity for everything else.

So imagine if you will that the way that we fly in the future is that the flights are like an Uber. They're self-driving with no pilot. It's flown by AI. You book it on your app and it's pretty close to you because it's like a multi-copter, let's say a multi-blade drone. Do you know how drones always have — I think is it four? Is that the right number? Do drones usually have four independent engines? Because I think that's the same model that they're building now to fly humans. So it would be something like maybe one to several people getting in their own little flying plane, which is actually now entirely possible. No pilot, no government, no security, because it wouldn't even be worth it for a terrorist.