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September 23, 2017

Vol. XI – Issue No. 78 – Sep 2017

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A PIED PIPER’S ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR LURE… (…to expand our existing tribe of zoned out palm-staring zombies). The apparent human need to have some way of displaying “elite status” has always been one of strongest motivating factors to tweak…when trying

September 26, 2016

Vol. XI –Issue No. 80 – Sept 2016

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THE UBER ROBO-CARS ARE COMING…THE UBER ROBO-CARS ARE COMING… (…but will these be a blessing…or a curse?) The taxi times are a-changing, but we’re not so sure that’s an improvement. We’ve seen how the advent of UBER and other services

May 8, 2016

Vol. XI – Issue No. 34 – Apr 2016

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]ABOUT ALL THOSE SHAKY FOUNDATIONS…UNDER OUR FEET. (especially all along the trail of the Pacific ring of fire) In the past few weeks two hard seismic events have shaken up our world. The first, in southern Japan, followed now by

January 22, 2016

Vol. XI – Issue No. 9 – Jan 2016

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FULLY AUTOMATED AND GLOBALLY CONNECTED… (…may not be the kind of brave new world we should want to end up with…) Everyone in the world today seems bent on being fully automated and globally connected and to be part of

October 28, 2015

Vol. X – Issue No. 93 – Oct 2015

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A LATTER-DAY MTV GENERATION… (…rapidly becoming IPhone junkies) Technology has finally managed to hybridize a communication system with entertainment content That is, thanks to the ubiquitous IPhone’s capabilities, anyone with one of those can now not only “communicate” with anyone

October 7, 2015

Vol. X – Issue No. 87 – Oct 2015

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THEIR CHEATING HEARTS… (…have become the preferred way to game their market positions) The latest scandal involving Volkswagen, which up until now was the epitome of quality, reliability, and rectitude, seems to be just another sorry example of how corrupt