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...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 26, 2014 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
I’ve decided to promote the a new concept, one that will change the world forever. In fact, it’s so advanced, it has no specific web address — it transcends the Internet itself. I’m calling it, “Real Life”. It’s the biggest...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 22, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk seems to contradict my general position that the private sector drives invention and innovation. After all, a well-funded government effort lost the race for manned flight to bicycle mechanics, and the Internet was in Black and Green until private geeks...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 12, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Technology & Futurism
{Received today from a communication I believe was sent through http://www.cispaisback.org/} Knowing of your support for an open and accessible internet, I wanted to let you know that I have signed onto Senator Ed Markey’s letter to the FCC regarding proposed...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 19, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
I would say we should step into the shoes of a (hypothetical?) extra-terrestrial to know how they might feel about us humans. But we don’t know if they have shoes, or feet, or perhaps even feelings in the same sense we do. So let’s play Star Trek. What...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 20, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
Starting with the scientific methods and ending on the education process, this excellent TED Talk takes us forward past ubiquitous knowledge and the prejudices of what we already know, into asking the right questions and driving focus onto what we don’t...
