This is the last installment of commentary of year year change, 2017 to 2018. AI (artificial intelligence) is tech and I could have left it as a paragraph or two within the 4th installment but decided to give it its own special treatment. You’re surrounded by AI. It’s now part of your smart phone, your […]
2017 Year-End Themes, Part 4, Tech Distrust
I don’t have to write this for most people to know that they have a growing distrust of the techy-class. As a trend, the surprising revelation is how quickly it’s consolidated at the end of 2017 and into the new year. I don’t have to bore anyone about their frustrations with Google and Facebook tracking […]
2017 Year-End Themes, Part 3, Sexual Harassment
America is in the heat of a huge cultural shift wherein egregious systemic sexual harassment is finally being outed. As of the end of 2017, it peaked and I predict, is ready to morph into something else. On the one hand we’re ready to evolve, on the other, there may be troublesome repercussions. During the […]
2017 Year-End Themes, Part 2, Enemies at the Gate
Perhaps ISIS, North Korea, or even Russia could have been viewed as the greatest threat to peace this past year and at the present. ISIS is dispersed into the cities and new hidden battlegrounds around the world, defeated militarily in their declared ‘home’. In retrospect, it wasn’t as hard as it appeared on the evening […]
2017 Year-End Themes, Part 1, Trump
Trump completes his first full year in office and he has not been run out or impeached. The Russia-accusations have not stuck and Mueller, I predict will basically fail in the core aspirations of Trump’s adversaries, indictment and removal from office. In the meantime, the economy roars, questionable legislative influence is made all OK by […]
Blockchain, Cryptos, and Your Future, a Reading List
Anyone taking in news over the past month has been informed of the exponential rise in the value of crypto-currencies (cryptos). To the average person interested in growing an investment, albeit a new and volatile type, they hear the news, find an online exchange and put some money in. Especially since Thanksgiving, the mad rush […]