Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive July 1, 2026
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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…

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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 say oh these hospitals are low on PPE but here's the pipeline and I'd know what's going on. So I guess Peter Thiel's company did that. In the article that also was interesting, I guess Thiel pulled back his employees from overseas earlier than basically anybody. So why is that? Peter Thiel could see the future and we can't? Well how does he keep doing this? The reason Peter Thiel is a billionaire and you're not is that he could see things early. Invested in Facebook early, etc. And he did it again. So his company was like the first one to pull their employees back to the United States in February. And I thought to myself, is it a coincidence? Is it a coincidence he keeps seeing the future and you don't? Probably not.

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See what else we've got going on here. What's up with the lack of Antifa? Are you surprised that Antifa is not protesting the shutdown of the economy? Because what could be more fascist according to them than the government overruling pretty much everything in civil liberties and talking about chipping us and putting ankle bracelets on us and armbands and carry IDs and stuff? Which by the way I do…

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