I knew where Avian is having gone to school in Switzerland. And these glass bottles had crossed the ocean to get to California. Most of the value was in shipping the glass. Here we were discussing how this new technology would enhance our country, and yet we couldn't make water. The real issue is that the future of all of our businesses is the difference between atoms and bits.
Many people think they are in the atom business, but really what they make are bits.
Newspapers, books, magazines. They manufacture bits but history has had them delivering atoms. Newspaper reporters send in stories in remote terminals, editors work on terminals, page layout and so on. It's all in digital form. Then at one point it's turned into ink put onto dead trees.