by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 21, 2014 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk shows us what we do not realize — that in today’s interactively data-mined Internet world, by our clicks and comments, WE determine our exposure to what we do and don’t like. And it manages and shifts the weight of news and interests,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Oct 2, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
I’ve always been a [[John Ritter]] fan. That’s why I wanted to rewatch “Americathon”, a movie I vaguely remembered from my childhood. Was it a bad movie? Well, there’s probably a reason I could only find it on VHS all these years …...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 15, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, October 24, 2013} Humans on Mars within the next century? Ridiculous. We can do it in 10 years. I recently returned from Chicago, running a 10K with my son. But the real race he wants to run is millions of kilometers long....
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 19, 2014 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk reveals that we are, in fact, behind Africa in terms of innovation and technology. Seriously. The speaker argues that francier technology has made the people of more developed areas intellectually occupied than creative, whereas the more real and dire...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 12, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
Today we bring you TWO TED Talks — an interview with Edward Snowden and an interview with a representative of the NSA. On a side note, I thought it interesting that Snowden used Skype as a robotic avatar, and Ledgett was bigger-than-life on a large screen....
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 29, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk is tame, but foreboding. It tells of companies that sell technology to governments — some and potentially all that use it not merely for law enforcement (terrorism, child predators, etc.) but to spy on citizens at will, monitoring even the...
