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“Britain ... is to embark on an experiment unique in human history, in which it voluntarily rejects whole areas of established technology which currently make society and the economy function, and tries to replace them with novel technologies, some of which do not currently exist and others of which may exist on a demonstration level but have not been scaled up. And the whole project has to be completed in just 27 years, no allowances, no wriggle room. It will be an industrial revolution to put all previous periods of human progress in the shade - if it can be achieved. But there is a very, very big and expensive 'if' there. It is generally good to be ambitious and optimistic. There is a point, however, at which it becomes foolishness.”
― Ross Clark, Not Zero: How an Irrational Target Will Impoverish You, Help China