There are many examples of activities on this planet that huge amounts of money are spent on with products that are not really for the betterment of mankind. In 2001, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced that the Pentagon could not account for some of their spending: “According to some estimates, we cannot track $2.3 […]
Today we see technology involved in activities that are questionable at best. This includes covert use of our personal information and digital surveillance. Digital media is being used to promote socially irresponsible and degrading messages. So-called “artificial intelligence” is not truly intelligent and is being used to replace people. Technology can be a very helpful […]
A unicorn is an imaginary animal that looks like a horse and has a straight horn growing from the middle of its forehead. But among investors and especially concerning tech startups, a tech unicorn is a tech company that has been valued by investors at more than one billion dollars. This list includes many such […]
If something is impossible it is not able to be done or it cannot happen. But the U.S. Armed Forces have used this as a slogan: “The difficult we do immediately, the impossible takes a little longer.” Is there anything that is truly impossible? Things are impossible to the degree that there are limits. Computers have […]
Although the advancement of technology on our planet has provided many benefits, it has also resulted in the loss of earlier technology and wisdom. For example, Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) was a British nurse, social reformer, statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She made statements that today would be quite controversial: “There are no specific […]
“Cognitive” is a word relating to mental functioning, including logic. “Dissonance” when used in a musical sense refers to the unpleasant combination of discordant notes. So “cognitive dissonance” is a mental conflict, disharmony and discomfort, especially when beliefs or assumptions are contradicted by new information. This is one of the primary barriers to progress in today’s […]
Everyone envisions events they want to happen and tries to make them become reality. We all want to make our dreams come true. This is done using imagination and action. But too many barriers can blunt both. When things have become too complex and confusing, people can focus on the past rather than dream their […]
A category is a group of things, often named or numbered, to which items are assigned based on similarity or defined criteria. Both humans and computers use categories to think or compute. Problems are often solved by separating the parts of each problem into categories. Categories are important to sanity. The process of reducing sanity […]
Unless a hypnotist gets the subject to agree with him, hypnosis cannot happen. We are all hypnotized to the degree that we unknowingly agree to things that go against our own determinism or sense of ethics. Agreement goes wrong when it is enforced. When one is part of a group, there is a force or […]
One of the most exciting aspects of ExoTech is that it will provide an uncensored platform to help expose lies and liars who are manipulating global communications and information. As I have discussed previously, our biggest barrier seems to be insufficient money. But that would not be true if most of the value of money […]