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A Glimpse into the Future

March 16, 2022 Guest Contributor

The world is in an amazing space with regard to technology. It is the most omnipotent force of our times. It has graduated from permeating our lives through just the TV, radio, car, etc., to now being with us 24/7 thanks to the amazing utility of the internet and the smartphone. In their turn, different … Read more

But, But … The Surveillance State (Social Credit System) Will Create Lots of Good Paying Jobs!

March 12, 2022 Steve MacDonald

This is disturbing. Yahoo! Finance has an article on the wealth opportunities of a sanctioned surveillance state. It’s worth over 16 billion. They even list the companies that are ready to benefit.

Knowledge without Zeal

January 19, 2022 Op-Ed

We live in some pretty extraordinary times as far as technology is concerned. To think we hold more technology in our hands via our cell phones than what they had when a man landed on the moon is crazy.

Palate Cleanser – and I Remember Dropping Trays of These

October 29, 2020 Skip

Even in the early 70s, secondary magnetic memory was rather expensive. At the BU Academic Computing Center where I was a student operator and teaching assistant, disk packs held 5MB 10 disks on a single spindle.

The NSA Has Violated Our Rights … It’s Official

September 11, 2020

After exposure by former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden, it took seven years. But last week a federal appeals court ruling came down. It says the Obama-Era NSA’s bulk collection of phone metadata was both illegal and unnecessary.

Technology, Society, Cyber-Culture, Privacy and Constitutions

August 29, 2020 Amil Imani

Since well before we eagerly leapt into the world of technology, we gave very little thought to the possibility that someday we would find ourselves at a perilous fork in the road as a society, culture, and country.

Teachers, is Your Profession Becoming Obsolete?

August 23, 2020 Ann Marie Banfield

Years ago I saw a survey by parents that indicated they preferred their children attending a local public school using a traditional model where their children were taught by great teachers. I think most everyone would agree with that, even when they opt for a private school.

NPR Broadcast Ratings Take a Hit – No Commute, No Commuters Listening

July 21, 2020 Auntie Vaquser

NPR’s cavalcade of partisan political radio romances is officially a COVID19 casualty. Wounded would be more accurate. The New America, with its infectious factions facilitating frauds, has hit the fake-news NPR to the tune 25% of its listening audience.

Moving Out With American Trucking

May 5, 2020

American trucking is responsible for much of our way of life. Most of us fail to realize how many of the things we use or consume daily do not have a local source. Whether it’s food, fuel, electronics or clothes; the goods are not from a local source.

The Best Ways To Upgrade Your Business This Year

May 4, 2020 Guest Contributor

It is important to always consider ways in which you can upgrade your business. You cannot expect to succeed and compete with other brands if you simply stay the same every year, especially when you consider just how quickly the landscape changes in terms of technology, trends, and expectations. This also makes it hard to … Read more

Can There Be Civilization Without Justice?

Does anyone believe China belongs on the Human Rights Council of the United Nations?

April 6, 2020 Steve MacDonald

On Wednesday, April 1, 2020, China received an appointment to the United Nations Human Rights Council panel. It will play a key role there picking the world body’s human rights investigators. This includes global monitors on freedom of speech, health, enforced disappearances, and arbitrary detention.

Important Fleet Tracking Insights Fleet Managers Should Know

January 22, 2020 Third Party Content

Fleet managers have an obligation to optimize the productivity of the company. Strategies like company vehicle tracking, fuel management, marketing of the business, and increased safety and security differentiates a performing fleet company and one that is not. The biggest concern today is tracking the fleet vehicles so that they remain productive, safe, and improve … Read more

Op-ED: Using Tech effectively in New Hampshire schools

October 9, 2019October 9, 2019 Op-Ed

To screen or not to screen? That is the question facing parents and educators across the country.

Digital technology has opened up new possibilities in teaching, as well as so many other areas of modern life. But new research finds that too much screen time can hinder a child’s educational development.

Will reality have any real effect on political debate?

September 27, 2019 Percy Blakeney

The conservative/liberal debate is interesting because both terms are undefined. It’s healthy to have this debate. But what exactly is the debate today? The terms have any meaning anyone wants to assign them, any time they feel like using them. Which is to say, they are utterly useless except as pejoratives.

Put Your Phone Down and Pay Attention

October 23, 2019June 18, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Would you like to learn a little-known secret? For several years before I gave a damn about politics, I practiced writing column length articles. Hey, I like to write. The topic at the time was driving. Traffic stats. Driver safety. And my kids were going to be drivers someday, so it sort of made sense.

Discovery: Scientists Can Turn CO2 From the Atmosphere into Coal at Room Temperature

March 5, 2019 Steve MacDonald

Put your land hogging species killing inefficient, green energy windmills and solar panels away. Oh, and the billions in pro-ups, handouts, and subsidies as well. Scientists in Australia have come up with an affordable, scalable process for turning CO2 from the air into solid carbon.

Donald Trump’s Moves To Develop US Supplies of Lithium and Other Critical Minerals

February 27, 2019 Steve MacDonald

No modern economy, especially a (cough-cough) green one, can long survive without critical minerals like lithium. But until recently US resources have gone undeveloped or underdeveloped. Most of our lithium comes from South America or Australia via China. That means strategic enemies. The Green President didn’t do much if anything to change that. Mr. Trump, however, has.

Motion Technology For All My PC’s

September 26, 2018April 23, 2013 Steve MacDonald

Coming in May 2013 – A motion technology interface that plugs into any PC – via USB port – allowing you to use your hands to interface with your computer. More details and links to more details here. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3b4w749Tud8

Email Doodlings: NH GOP – Bang! There goes one foot

September 26, 2018March 11, 2013 Skip

BackStory: Since the national election, much has been made of the Obama Data Machine – hundreds of millions of dollars spent, hundreds of people employed, and a use of advanced IT married with Big Data and Behavioral Engineering / Science for the singular purpose of keeping Obama in the Oval Office seat. Certainly, the GOP, the NH GOP, needs to learn that lesson (one among many) that the terms, conditions, and actions of campaigning have been forever changed. The ability to find, persuade, motivate, and get new and low information voters to go and vote was a model of technology – far beyond what has been yet defined, spec’d out, implemented, and used.

Agreement all around: the GOP, heck – the NH GOP, has to get with it and soon. Or either be relegated to minority status for a long time -or come out with another kind of disruptive technique (perhaps totally orthagonal to even the “new normal” of Big Data / Behavioral Science / Campaigning. If the latter happens, great but in the mean time, it is pretty much agreed that Tech must be upgraded. Pretty much, it is a must – anything to better connect with voters. One email that came in over the transom:

Party Of Science and Technology Hits Way-Back Machine For Benghazi Cover-Up

September 26, 2018October 25, 2012 Steve MacDonald

I still have an election 2010 bumper sticker on my car that say’s “Take Back America.” Last week I saw a bumper sticker, clearly designed to counter that idea “Take American back where?” with a list of dates traveling into antiquity. The left thinks they are the party of science, progress. They tell themselves these things to cover up their desire for a failed system of government that in the scope of human history has itself been the rule rather than the exception. A top down tyranny directed by a chosen few who decide what is best for the rabble. Forward!

Well the party of technology is at cross-purposes over their cover-up in Benghazi.