Is Deflation A Result of Exploding Global IQ?
Have just been reading more stuff about deflation in Europe, Russia and just about everywhere else, developed that is. The intelligentsia believes that it’s due to a number of factors especially the aging of the population and lack of policies to stimulate demand. Who knows, they might be right. But I have another wild idea. […]
How many Dead People on the Internet? Reflections on Alan Turing and the Imitation Game.
I notice that Facebook has just announced a new policy concerning who owns a person’s account once they die. The issue of what happens to and who owns a dead user’s accounts is a huge and growing global issue as everything goes into the cloud. I had an employee who died about 3 years ago. I forwarded […]
Tacit Knowledge – Another Type of Locked-In Syndrome?
I just watched a TV show about a guy with locked-in syndrome. That occurs when someone is paralyzed, and can’t speak or move and is diagnosed as being in a vegetative state. We now realize that many such people are indeed conscious and aware but can’t make anyone aware of that fact. It’s a tragic state […]
Pop-Up Careers: The New Normal?
Did you see that miillennials expect to have about 15-20 jobs in their lifetimes? So the idea of one job for life has gone the way of the transistor. Out of the window with it goes hallowed virtues such as employee loyalty and company training. But I fear that even 15-20 jobs doesn’t get to the […]
The Next Frontier in Diversity: Should Personality Discrimination be Legally Banned?
So many unfair behaviors are not legally discrimination, even if in real life they reflect unfair or unequal treatment. Discrimination against races, genders, disabilities, gay marriages and so on has all been legally proscribed. Could there be any forms of discrimination left? Well yes, although it hasn’t become fashionable yet, but maybe it will. After […]
Are Animals the Next Mass Consumer Market?
Did you notice that Skype/Microsoft has just launched its simultaneous translation service for Spanish to English? Believe it or not, in a real-life man-bites dog story, Microsoft beat Google to the punch. Pretty soon we can expect simultaneous translation between most major and even many minor languages. Who could have predicted that just a few years […]
What Will a Driverless Car Look Like? Automodules Anyone?
I guess you have seen all the hoopla around driverless cars? But to me they look very passé. Antennae sticking out everywhere; otherwise old wine in bottles. And they look the same as they do now. What’s exciting about that? After all, when you have a driverless car you don’t need a steering wheel, controls, […]
There is a Connection between the “Nut Rage” Incident at Korean Airlines and the AirAsia Crash
The “nut rage” incident at Korea Airlines exposed once again the feudal leadership culture there. This was supposed to have been eradicated with the training given by Delta Airlines many years ago to eliminate the dysfunctional culture in the aircraft cockpit which had led to several crashes by KAL planes. Clearly this culture is still […]
Does Meat Cause Obesity?
Now here’s an interesting idea. Is the cause of obesity simply due to the antibiotics that every meat producer puts in the food supply for their animals? You might have thought that meat producers add antibiotics to their animal feed to prevent or cure disease. You would be wrong. They do it because it results […]
Extreme Fracking Means the End of the Ruble as We Know It?
Did you notice that the NASA’s Curiosity Rover has just seen spikes of methane on Mars? People are already putting one and one together to get five, namely the presumed presence of life on Mars, inferred from the production of methane. But there’s another possibility. That is, that the methane comes from inorganic, non-biological processes. If […]