Third, the market is (with exceptions) global. If Google moves its headquarters to Toronto, that doesn’t open up an opportunity for a new American search engine.
I find the time constraint to be a strength (used to do these in college - won some prizes, sometimes didn’t finish in time). It’s a beautiful thing to work on an ambitious thing against a clock, knowing that if you fail you can walk away. The ticking clock forces you to put your ego and perfectionism aside and ask questions of the interesting people around you.
A related article was "Muslim nobel laureates". Total:10. I did some quick meaningless math, and found that there's 1 nobel prize winner for every 160 million muslims, and 1 for every 70,000 jews.
I'm not going to try and interpret the data, but I do think that's interesting.
It's hyperbole. I use 3D printers frequently. The "instantaneous" was referring to the digitizer, which takes 12 minutes to create the file. That, compared to the hours it would take to create such a design in CAD program, could be called instantaneous. Just as "rapid prototyping" can take hours, depending upon the object. It's fast, compared to the alternative.