Well just like many “alternative medicines” it’s likely a blend of:

Who’s reading that blog post in 2019?

This doesn’t really make sense.

Best Picard quote:

In most cases YouTube vids will bring you pocket change that will barely cover your expenses. But for those people in South East Asia those $100-$1000 are serious money (average monthly wage in Vietnam is about $150 and probably lower in rural areas), so they learn click bait really quickly.

“they will just pass the new increased costs to their consumers”

Well, I’ll believe it when I see it.

Care to elaborate?

Anybody else was hoping for a “Robocop” incident, like the arms suddenly went mad, grabbed a passer-by and smashed it savagely on the floor?

If only but it’s a lot dumber than that now.

Well, for example, medals can be non pointless status symbol.

“They removed them humanely, and made a point to tell the entire building that they were safely relocated”

It wouldn’t make a difference if they treated their employees well.

Yeah, that’s why Tesla’s behavior is really petty.

Well, it would mark you as a s**tty company from the get go, and it’s not like people can’t find other ways to complain. So it’s really bottom of the barrel behavior. Not that it’s surprising coming from Tesla.

Assange fled over the sexual assault charges in Sweden but contends that his main concern was being extradited to the U.S. And it would appear that he was right to be afraid.

Technically it’s a scooter (in the picture), Vespa is just a (once) popular scooter brand.

At this rate, next step in “personal mobility” will soon be...

These people are not looking for truth, they are looking for what people want to hear.

Yeah, retrospectively I'm quite surprised that a lot of his predictions are actually pretty good. Although his company missed most of them.