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...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 6, 2014 | Business & Economics, Technology & Futurism
This TED Talk shows how additional risk factors in investment — environment, social and governance, or ESG — qualify sustainability, and are at the very least compatible with investment returns. And in the long-term, protection of investment within...
by Barry Fagin | May 5, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
{Published in t he Colorado Springs Gazette, June 27, 2012} As “prayer warriors” gather to pray for rain, for a miracle, or just for the safety of the firefighters, might I suggest that we give reason her due? After all, which is doing a better job, right here and...