Sunday, April 30, 2023

Platinum: It doesn't have to run out to become unavailable

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Whenever there is an argument about the sufficiency of resources to meet the demands of our voracious industrial economy, those defend...
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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Dangers from future technologies? It's the current ones that are killing us

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Certainly, there a plenty of horror stories about possible disasters awaiting us from emerging technologies. I've written ...
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Sunday, April 16, 2023

Another offering from our tech overlords: A climate change solution without sacrifice

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My expectations are never disappointed when I read the news each day and find out that the solutions to the problems created by our m...
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Sunday, April 09, 2023

Hazards of a connected world - Should you forgo the Internet of Things?

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One of the wonders of our age is that we can have real-time communication with people anywhere in the world there is access to the int...
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Sunday, April 02, 2023

Chinese imagine genetically engineered radioactivity-resistant soldiers

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A story about the possibility of creating genetically engineered radioactivity-resistant soldiers last week made it seem tha...
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Sunday, March 26, 2023

Taking a short break - no post this week

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I'm taking a short break this week and expect to post again on Sunday, April 2.
Sunday, March 19, 2023

What the dramatic drop in European demand for natural gas showed us

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When Russian natural gas supplies to Europe dropped dramatically in the wake of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Europeans and their gover...
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Sunday, March 12, 2023

Despoiling the final frontier: Satellite mega-constellations threaten ozone layer

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Here we go again. Satellite companies that plan to put tens of thousands of satellites into orbit to create space-based internet and c...
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Sunday, March 05, 2023

Taking a short break - no post this week

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I'm taking a short break this week and expect to post again on Sunday, March 12.
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Is AI a job killer? What does history say?

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With all the concern about artificial intelligence (AI) destroying a large number of jobs in the coming years, it might be...