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🚀 NEW WORLD. NEW MONEY. SPACE IS OPEN FOR BUSINESS. Reporting in from Amazon’s HQ2 in Virginia, where the Space Foundation just dropped the most future-core stat of the year:
→ $613 BILLION.
That’s how big the global space economy got in 2024. Bigger than the global music and gaming industries combined. And it’s scaling faster than most countries’ entire GDP.
🛰️ WELCOME TO THE ERA OF INTERPLANETARY CAPITALISM. This isn’t sci-fi. It’s now. Think: asteroid mining, moon-based data centers, terraforming Mars, space weather insurance, and low-orbit broadband wars.
→ TRANSLATION: This moment = the Saudis striking oil. Only this time it’s satellites, launchpads, and orbital lasers.
And if you're still watching cable news, you're already light-years behind.
—> 📈 COMMERCIAL SPACE = BIG BUSINESS. Private companies now make up 78% of the industry’s revenue, led by SpaceX, Amazon’s Kuiper, and emerging Earth-observation firms. Launches are happening every 28 hours. Most are satellite broadband plays, but more and more are dual-use for climate data, military surveillance, and national security.
—> 🇺🇸 THE U.S. IS ALL IN: The U.S. spent $77 billion on space last year — and just authorized $25 billion more for a missile defense system called the Golden Dome. Meanwhile, China, Europe, and Asia are scaling up their own sovereign military space programs.
—> 🛰️ HEADED TO $1 TRILLION BY 2032: The Space Foundation says we’re on track to hit $1 trillion by the early 2030s. Why? Because space isn’t just about astronauts anymore — it’s about communications, defense, climate, logistics, and survival.
Source: Space Foundation.
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DINERS
🍔⚡️ TESLA’S FUTURE-NOSTALGIA DINER OPENS IN HOLLYWOOD: Elon Musk just dropped a real-life Jetsons vibe on Sunset Blvd — opening the first-ever Tesla Diner & Drive-In, packed with charging stations, humanoid robots, and grilled cheese.
—> 🎥 THE SCENE: Two 66-foot movie screens, Tesla’s Optimus robot serving popcorn, and servers on roller skates gliding between Cybertruck-themed containers of fried chicken & waffles. The whole place opened (of course) at 4:20 PM.
—> 🌎 COMING SOON TO A CITY NEAR YOU? Musk says if the diner does well, Tesla will launch more across major cities and at Supercharger stops worldwide.
—> 🍟 THE VIBE: Think Shakey’s Pizza meets sci-fi fan convention meets Vegas-style EV showroom. Open 24/7, so you can get your "Electric Sauce" fix anytime.
QUANTUM // ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
🚀 CHICAGO’S $1B QUANTUM GAMBLE: A NEW SUPERCOMPUTER IS COMING: Illinois just landed one of the most ambitious quantum computing projects on the planet. PsiQuantum will build a $1.09B quantum supercomputer on Chicago’s South Side — at the site of a former U.S. Steel plant.
—> 🧠 WHAT IT’LL DO: Solve problems normal computers never could. Think faster drug discovery, better electric batteries, and cheaper ways to make fertilizer. The machine will run on “qubits” — data units that can be 1, 0, or both at once — unlocking mind-bending speed and power.
From Bloomy:
The company’s supercomputer would have a wide range of applications across business sectors, including drug development, new electric batteries and cheaper ways to produce fertilizer, O’Brien said.
—> 📅 THE TIMELINE: Construction starts later this year. The machine is set to go online by 2028 — just in time for the next presidential election, where Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (who helped bring the deal together) is rumored to be a possible contender.
—> 🏗️ WHY CHICAGO: PsiQuantum picked the site for its access to land, power, water, and talent. With backing from BlackRock and talks underway with Mercedes-Benz and Boehringer Ingelheim, the South Side is suddenly the new center of quantum.
Source: Bloomberg
HEALTH
THINGAMABOBS
📱 THE PUBLIC WANTS FLIP PHONES — NOT $2,000 FOLDING TABLETS: A new CNET survey finds 64% of people have no interest in foldables. Even as Samsung, Google, and Motorola push clunky, high-tech books that double as phones, most consumers just want their old Sidekicks and Razrs back.
—> 🧠 WHY NOSTALGIA WINS: The flip, the snap, the click-clack of physical buttons — retro phones offer a dopamine hit today's touchscreen slabs just can't match. Motorola is even making cheaper versions of its classic Razr to feed the throwback frenzy.
—> 💰 BUT HERE’S THE PROBLEM: Phones aren’t just phones anymore — they’re banks, ID cards, gaming consoles, and digital storefronts. Removing features might make them feel cooler, but it cuts into the revenue stream of big tech giants who now profit off every tap.
—> 🍎 THE APPLE WILDCARD: Apple hasn’t entered the foldable race yet, but if and when it does (maybe 2026), it could shift the trend. For now, foldables remain under 5% of all smartphone sales. Translation? You’re not alone in wanting your Blackberry back.
Source: CNET
ONE MORE THING
🌍 EARTH IS SPINNING FASTER: Days are getting shorter — by milliseconds. July 10 clocked in 1.36 milliseconds under 24 hours, the shortest day of 2025 so far. More blink-and-you’ll-miss-it fast days are coming July 22 and August 5.
—> ⏱️ WHY? Earth’s rotation isn’t perfectly steady — the moon’s pull, seasons, and even our molten core shake things up.
Source: CNN
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Kev
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