by Barry Fagin | Aug 1, 2011 | Business & Economics, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 12-28-06} My son came home from college last week. Due to the storm, his flight was 48 hours late. My wife and I threw our exhausted arms around him at midnight, three tiny drops in a sea of people at DIA. John Lennon once...
by Barry Fagin | May 9, 2011 | Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2011-02-16} It’s a place of stunning beauty, all the more so because of the stillness. Red rocks, red dirt, no sign of humanity for miles. I might as well be on Mars. That’s why the Mars Desert Research Station is here. I’ve...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 24, 2011 | Featured, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
It was [[Lech Walesa]] who said that the greatest export of the United States ought to be Human Rights. American grade schoolers are taught our Revolution over two hundred years ago inspired the French Revolution and marked the beginning of the end of Monarchy, and...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 21, 2011 | Education, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
{Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2-23-06} Were you at the last D11 Town Meeting? I was. Bet you weren’t. I bet you weren’t because I counted maybe 30 people tops. I know we’re all busy, and not everybody lives in District 11. But an...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 17, 2011 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
More than ever, the Internet is a portal to the most honest, unfiltered view of human society in everyday life. It is a constant demonstration of the role of (positive) Capitalist values in supplying freedom of speech, assembly, and the pursuit of happiness. And this...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 27, 2011 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
Something amazing happened. Maybe you missed it. After technology incrementally changed the world from the horse and buggy to the [[Space Shuttle]], we missed something far more incredible. It isn’t about some under-reported discovery (think mapping the Human...
