Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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There's a weird little story about Chris Cuomo breaking quarantine because of course he has the coronavirus. And there's a story that he went and visited some other property he owns that was under construction and he got in an altercation with a bicycler who recognized him and thought he should be in quarantine. And if that's true then people are wondering what is this video of Chris Cuomo emergin…

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I have a theory that all it will take for online education, which got a big boost of course from everybody staying home from school, etc., I think the only thing that's left for it to really just replace education in person in the classroom is a search engine. I think all you would need is a search engine that could find any class on a topic across all platforms. So right now there are a bunch of siloed teaching platforms and there's a lot of stuff on YouTube. You could find that with a search engine but it would just be the YouTube stuff. I don't think you could easily search and compare. So what I'd be looking for is something like Yelp for online education. I want to go up to a site and say I would like to learn data security or something or Euclidean geometry or taking an English grammar class or whatever. And I want to type into the search engine and I don't want it like a Yelp review. I want it to tell me all the videos on that, all the classes you could find online, and then where to find them. So in some cases I might have to sign up for Udemy or any one of dozens of different online colleges but I'd know which one I needed and they don't cost much to sign up. So you could create, you could say ah darn it I've got to take one class from this online platform then pay money for it and have to take this other class from another online platform and I'd have to be a subscriber to that too. But you're not talking about much money. You could Google it but you wouldn't get reviews. So it's the reviews. It's knowing which ones are the good ones that makes it good. The Khan Academy, etc. So there are lots of places you can find things but there's no one place where you can search for I want a class on this topic and get a list across platforms with reviews. Because I don't think people would mind signing up for let's say Udemy for whatever it is per month because you could pay for the whole month and it's dozens of dollars. I don't know what it costs. It's a pretty low amount and it would be cheaper than going to college by so much that it would still be worth it. Anyway that's what I think.

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Apparently according to somebody who tweets out that Peter Thiel's company Palantir has created dashboards that are a single source for health officials to track supply chain stuff for PPE and ventilators and so on. So I was shouting from the early days of the coronavirus, where is my dashboard so that I don't have to listen to the task force give numbers and no context? I can just look at it and…

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