The pace of for-profit technological innovations is accelerating, but to what end beyond corporate sales? The gap between marketing new high-tech products and assessing their intended and unintended consequences has never been greater. Let’s start with the ballooning of augmented reality inside virtual reality. Facebook’s Oculus Rift escapism has flopped. Trying to improve on this […]
I’m finishing up a “children’s book.” It’s longish. Kati the Coatimundi Finds Lorena. It’s about a precocious (actually, super smart) 12 year old, Lorena, who is in a wheelchair (paraplegic) who ends up finding out the family trip to Playa del Carmen back to San Antonio, Texas, brought with them a stowaway animal — a coati. Yep, the world […]
In this news roundup I give the larger techno context to the seemingly bizarre and unrelated stories being pushed in the media. Cecil? Harambe? Lions with carunka?? Veganism and diet? What about the problems of pollution and the Changing Images of Man, and the First Global R3volution document? I give you the larger context, as well as a free of charge Gill Bates Ted Talk original.
It’s tough to be an engineering student these days, with so many new developments in modern technology and technological knowledge. The course curricula are more crowded than ever and the impact of emerging technologies is monumental. Some engineering professors worry that their students’ busy course schedules prevents them from adequately exploring the liberal arts. Without exposure to the liberal arts, engineering students will lack the broad context that will help them approach their work as a profession, not just a trade.
Majd Mashharawi has invented environmentally friendly, cheap and lightweight blocks that use ash instead of sand. Could ‘Green Cake’ help rebuild the besieged Gaza Strip?
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Jay Dyer returns to Tim Kelly’s “Our Interesting Times,” to discuss his piece “TERROR THEATRE: The EU Babel, Brussels Attack Numerology & Media Fakery.” We talk about the terrorist attacks in Brussels and the evidence indicating that they were yet another “Gladio style” false flag event staged by elements within NATO and western intelligence agencies. We discuss media fakery, the possible esoteric meaning in these staged events and the role numerology appears to play in them.
