A few months ago I sat in a Starbucks drinking coffee, and as is sometimes the way in coffee shops, I couldn’t help but overhear a conversation at the table next to me. An earnest young man was actively working to recruit a young lady into his gaming business. The words he was […]

In our Ticking Time Bombs article, two issues among several stand out, climate crisis and end of easy oil. They are old stories to be sure, but are there solutions that address them, now?
The big news I got from the event I am currently attending in Milan is the debut of a new, all-electric, […]

A trend worth serious attention in 2007 is the blending of virtual and physical money. Money has been readily changed from currency to currency for a long time. But now traditional money can be traded for virtual money, and vice versa.
At the simple end, there is Pogo.com, a game site which attracts a […]

It looks like, near midnight Pacific Time on Election day in the U.S., a new day is dawning in the U.S. Congress, as anticipated below. Watch for more comment tomorrow.
I have been thinking about the likelihood that new Congressional leadership is about to emerge in Washington DC. More and more political races are […]

The report to the government of the United Kingdom on the consequences of unchecked global warming received a deserved splash of recognition in the past couple of days. The key point made in their report is that time is short to begin a global program to significantly reduce human-caused warming, and that each passing […]