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...
by Barry Fagin | Apr 28, 2014 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, May 2, 2012} Quick: What Colorado sports team just won its conference championship and is ranked #2 nationally? I’ll give you a hint: They play for an NCAA Division I school. Ultimately, though, they play for you. They are...
by Barry Fagin | Apr 21, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette as “Some day man should master Mother Nature”, June 20, 2013} As we grieve for all that we have lost during the fire, I urge all of us to come together as a community and rededicate ourselves to the study of the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 18, 2014 | Science & Pseudoscience, Technology & Futurism
This Tuesday we bring you a video presentation on … well … mechanical androids. No, this isn’t [[Steampunk]] fantasy, but the achievement of the men of the Enlightenment with nothing but gears and cogs. Watch it HERE. Related articles The Writer:...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 11, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
The speaker in this TED Talk suggests that hacking — amateur modifications to existing things — is a highly democratic process, citing Ben Franklin as a role model for such activity, and crowdsourcing of municipal information as modern examples. The most...
