Should be required reading for all. [As in ‘everyone’]. ===== WSJ 1/26/2019 by By Kate Bachelder Odell Americans may not agree on much, but here’s one point of consensus: Social media isn’t entirely wonderful. Facebook has its privacy scandals, and who would join Twitter for the camaraderie? This week an ugly online mob demonstrated the point by setting upon a... Read more
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Not to Late to Quit Social Media – Cal Newport
January 27 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal Development, TechnologyThe Interconnected World and Martin Luther?
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, TechnologySome thoughts about how things change, and yet how much stays the same… ========= By Niall Ferguson Originally published in The Sunday Times, October 1, 2017 Just as Martin Luther’s utopian vision and the invention of the printing press led to an era of religious war and turmoil, the internet, hailed as a portal to a better world, is threatening democracy The hyperconnected world was... Read more
The Computer that could Rule the World
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Military, Technology, Western CivilizationThis makes me nervous. ====== WSJ – 10/28/2017 By Arthur Herman During World War II the federal government launched the Manhattan Project to ensure the U.S. would possess the first atomic bomb. Seventy-five years later, America is in another contest just as vital to national security, the economy and even the future of liberal democracy. It’s the race to build the first fully operational... Read more
Fake News and the Digital Duopoly
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, TechnologyIf you think Google, Facebook, or even LinkedIn, are ‘charities’ and primarily concerned with the task of “serving mankind” I would say you are deluded. ========== By Robert Thomson WSJ 4/5/2017 ‘Fake news” has seemingly, suddenly, become fashionable. In reality, the fake has proliferated for a decade or more, but the faux, the flawed and the fraudulent are now pressing issues because the... Read more
Bill Gates on Robots
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Tax Issues, TechnologyBill Gates is a smart guy, but I think he is missing the point with his view of robots and the impact on jobs. ===== WSJ 4/26/2017 By Andy Kessler Bill Gates, meet Ned Ludd. Ned, meet Bill. Ludd was the 18thcentury folk hero of anti-industrialists. As the possibly apocryphal story goes, in the 1770s he busted up a few stocking frames—knitting machines used... Read more
The Next American Farm Bust Is Upon Us
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, TechnologyEcclesiastes 1:9-11 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new?” It has been already in the ages before us. There is no rememberance of later things yet to be among those who come after. ======== WSJ 2/8/2017 ... Read more
