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  • Spock was an Iranian January 3, 2020Spock was an Iranian
    Chess in the Middle East, Iran and all the rest. Old post from 2013 that hasn’t changed.
  • We Are At The Singularity February 10, 2019We Are At The Singularity
    When history is written it may well be determined that the “Singularity” began around about 2017. The Singularity is by some definitions when technological invention becomes self-sustaining, technology critical mass ...
  • My Country Is Not Lost October 10, 2018My Country Is Not Lost
    These are unsettling times. The monsters have come to Maple Street, and just as it always turns out in that old Rod Serling Twilight Zone, they are us. I went to ...
  • Big Black Cars July 23, 2018Big Black Cars
    It was an early quiet Saturday evening in July. I was people watching sitting on a wooden memorial bench in a warm concrete hospital emergency room parking garage in Los Angeles.  Only ...
  • Italians In The Desert June 10, 2018Italians In The Desert
    I had a 1974 Alfa Romeo Alfetta. It was red. I bought from a guy who owned the little truck stop casino west of Reno where highway 80 starts to ...
  • Trump The First, Hail The Internet May 24, 2018Trump The First, Hail The Internet
    The Internet changes everything. Right? Bill Gates opined: “A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.” Another Information Age swami, Ray Kurzweil predicted the demise of ...
  • Weedshiners in Hopped-Up Self-Driving Teslas January 16, 2018Weedshiners in Hopped-Up Self-Driving Teslas
    Times have changed. Cannabis, pot, marijuana, weed, grass has moved along with cultural evolution in America. My hips, knees, and thumbs suffer the abuse of decades of bike riding, bike racing, ...
  • Killer Robots Anyone December 31, 2017Killer Robots Anyone
    There was this, “Nobody’s Ready for the Killer Robot” about killer robots in Bloomberg. The piece has an interview with Robert H. Latiff who has a new book out, “Future ...
  • NPR and Amazon Flex and Robots December 18, 2017NPR and Amazon Flex and Robots
      The December 18, 2017 NPR “On Point” show about Amazon Flex and the gig economy was very good. It was a good balance of guests and a busy call-in stream. ...
  • Present Mind March 9, 2017Present Mind
    “What did your face look like before your parents were born? What did your face look like before your parents were born? What did your face look like before your ...