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Future Trends – Gain without Pain?
August 10th, 2008
The new age we are now entering, The Shift Age, will be a time of great transformation. One of the areas that will undergo the greatest transformation is health and medicine. It is expected that nanotechnology will bring great changes in both medical treatments and life expectancy. The miniaturization of computer and chip technology will finally initiate the era of the bionic human to some degree. There will breakthroughs in pharmacology and discoveries that will basically be unintended consequences of research into the treatment and cures of many diseases.
One such incredible discovery was reported last week by researchers at the …
It’s All About the Teraflops
November 12th, 2007
In the 60 year history of computers, there has been a constant improvement of computational speed. Ever faster has always been one of the driving metrics of the industry. Moore’s Law has been manifested with desktops and laptops to the point where the computers we use are as fast as we need. The machines we use today are incredibly faster that those we used at the turn of the century. The power of these machines however is dwarfed by the super computers now being developed.
The Dalai Lama
October 18th, 2007
Finally, the Dalai Lama was formally invited to visit a President in the White House. This week the Dalai Lama visited the White House prior to receiving the Congressional Gold Medal at the U.S Capitol. Finally, the leaders of the most powerful democracy in the world have stopped being bullied by China and have recognized one of the great spiritual leaders in the world, who is also a Nobel Peace Prize winner.
All the issues about lack of leadership in Washington D.C. that have been addressed here on this blog aside, hearty congratulations to the U.S. Congress and to …
A Happiness Index
September 25th, 2007
Through out the entire course of human history, there has been consistent reference to happiness. Many philosophers have basically come to the conclusion that the fundamental goal of a human life is to be happy, to find and share happiness. This thread exists from the earliest writing to the present day Dalai Lama. Perhaps the most succinct advice came from the great 20th century spiritual teacher Meher Baba who said “Don’t worry, be happy!†Of course, twenty years after Baba’s death, Bobby McFerrin recorded a wonderful song in honor of this simple …
