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Cars Cameras Computers Change
Hunting for safe conversation topics for the holidays? It’s been a weird year, but maybe too weird with too many controversies. The holidays are about tradition, remembering supposedly simpler times. Simpler or not, change is happening. Arguably change is accelerating. … Continue reading
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Tagged cameras, cars, computers, digital singularity, driveless cars, electric cars, future, history, Kodak, pollution, prognostication, Tesla
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2040-ish
It is funny how things happen. Actually, we need a new phrase because a coincidence of topics recently arrived that I find thoughtful, but not funny. My sci-fi novel, Firewatcher, is set at least a couple of decades from now. … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, assumptions, digital singularity, Dream. Invest. Live., Earth Overshoot Day, economy, finance, Firewatcher, government, investing, mortgage, MVIS, overpopulation, personal finance, Pretending Not To Panic, stocks, sustainability, wealth
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Firewatcher Launched
Let me start with an irony or a coincidence. Whenever I finish writing or producing a book and it becomes available for sale I consider it “launched”. Maybe that has something to do with being trained as an aerospace engineer. … Continue reading
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Tagged digital singularity, dystopia, Firewatcher, science fiction, self publishing
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Truly Scary Things
If only I could match the list of my scariest things to Julie Andrews singing My Favorite Things from The Sound of Music. Irony: The Sound of Music was about a family fleeing a government that shifted from a constitutional … Continue reading
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Tagged bitcoin, climate change, deflation, digital singularity, environment, finance, injustice, personal finance, social injustice, technology, terrorism
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Super Bowl Ads 2018
The game is over. Finally, I can sit down and watch one of the two most interesting events from Super Bowl Weekend; the ads. (The second most interesting event to watch is the Puppy Bowl, but I’ll enjoy that some … Continue reading
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Tagged advertisers, advertising, consulting, digital singularity, investing, personal finance, stocks, Super Bowl
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My 40 Year Mortgage
Another interview! Not for a job, but for someone else’s article. (Someone out there must need a writer who can write about engineering in English.) The folks at Nerdwallet.com wanted to write about 40 year mortgages and were having a … Continue reading
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Tagged digital singularity, economy, health care, housing, inflation, mortgage, personal finance, Whidbey
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Adapting To Singularities
Singularities don’t have to happen alone. One singularity is enough to make the world seem senseless. Old rules don’t apply. Old causes create new effects. It is easy to get confused. Triple that, at least. We may be experiencing three … Continue reading
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Tagged artificial intelligence, Brexit, climate change, digital singularity, disruptive technology, earthquake, environment, frugal, frugality, health care, housing, investing, Lottery, New Zealand, personal finance, politics, sea ice, Simple Living, singularity, stocks, technology, tsunami
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Five Years From September 2016
The following post will be the straight line of a joke where we get to hear the punch line five years later. I’ve been lucky enough to be part of a conversation and series of meetings about the economic sustainability … Continue reading
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Tagged 3D printing, artists, coworks, culture, digital singularity, economics, environment, Great Recession, housing, infrastructure, jobs, organic farming, pension, quantitative easing, Retirement, Second Great Depression, small town, society, virtual reality
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Grind Grind Grind
Hey! How’d that happen? The first month of 2016 is almost over, already. One-twelfth of the year has gone by. Less than eleven months until Christmas. Only two and a half months until Tax Day (for those of us in … Continue reading
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Tagged digital singularity, finance, Fine Balance Imaging, Oxfam, persistence, personal finance, Wealth Inequality
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Tricks And Treats 2015
Halloween. Another excuse for costumes and candy. I think a three piece suit is a costume, and mine doesn’t fit anymore (in more ways than one.) Candy is sweet, but I prefer sweet things like liqueurs and cookies (preferably made … Continue reading
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Tagged Aliens, alternative energy, Bell's Theorem, compassion, consciousness, dark energy, digital singularity, drought, earthquakes, health, Internet, magnetic pole flip, nuclear weapons, pandemic, PNTP, satellites, SETI, social injustice, society, solar storm, tsunamis, volcanoes
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