Lobster, the cockroach of the sea, was a sign of poverty and being poor… it became fancy through a powerful rebranding. http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/how-lobster-got-fancy-59440 The book (more…)
If you think EV’s like the Tesla are good for the environment, you need to dig deeper.
If you believe EV’s are good for the environment, you need to reassess what you define as “good”. The Tesla is easily more polluting if it is charged from a coal fired plant. There are complexities here (more…)
Trans Pacific Treaty, Silicon Valley, Sanctuary Cities & Partisanship, Trump, & The cloud/SAAS/Internet of Things and Security. <-- Economist reads!
Security and internet of things My thoughts: In a recent reboot of Battlestar Galactica, The captain of the ship encourages his crew to “not network the Battlestar”, because it would save them from the (more…)
Anti-GMO is incredibly unscientific, based in opinion with no facts.
I have always been really cued into the public discussions that include a lot of opinion versus fact, etc. I am a huge skeptic, and big “science can save us from ourselves” guy. I am certainly not aggro (more…)
The Coming Age of Long Form Journalism – some delightful examples of media rich articles.
The duality of a society with less and less attention finding the time to consume large bits of detailed information is not so surprising, as modern times find niche markets victorious. Looking to be (more…)
Detecting Baloney – the need for development of critical thought & honing our collective faculties….
The Economist is asking why people believe in nonsense. Well I will tell you: Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and others have known it for years: We need to teach critical thought to young people, (more…)
Majel, Artificial Intelligence, Mind Control, Downloading knowledge, Data Exhaust, & modern scientific ethical complexities
People are concerned. It used to be a world of just *DO* science without our full awareness of the consequences. It was just a general thirst for knowledge coupled with a panic of discovery driven by a primal human capitalism. I believe this led to be the blood on his hands, of which Oppenheimer spoke about. *Now*, there is an awareness that scientific discovery has very real consequences now and in the immediate future, while we prepare to innovate ourselves towards perpetuity. Like Nellie said in Contact… if we can get through our technological immaturity, and learn without killing ourselves in the meantime, the human race has the capacity to be infinite. What we look like at the end of it, however, is just what these tiny conversations are currently about. The current ethical issues will be forgotten in time, and our future selves won’t understand how much we cared what we become… but the nature of evolution is as murky as how human the human race will be when we get to the finish line. I am hoping distant relatives intone a slight humanity at the end of time, while being evolved enough to withstand the infinite crispness of entropy, moving through a frozen time where energy has ebbed to a blackened figment. No one beats the outcome of this universe, but I still have hope a vestige of the human race will be party to it.
California; Where it all went wrong leader from The Economist
So.. this is interesting. The Economist this week has a leader story / special report on California.  You can buy it (One click buy PDF, which includes all graphics, etc), but you may be able to read (more…)
Data is Now. Aggregate data overload, and unlocking it for the future.
You can find so much here at DATAVIS. This, I believe is the most significant and accessible way for people to understand what is happening here… it’s not just visualizing, but mapping data with controls (more…)
Meg Whitman’s ugly attack ads seem even more hollow thanks to Economist article
I think this is fairly interesting… An article from the Economist talks a bit about California’s current predicament, and the upcoming election. I am quite interested in this race, and have some (more…)