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Blogging vacation

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:00:00 +0000

After 140 posts I've decided to take a little blog vacation. Check back in about a month for further updates.

Is It Fireworks or Something Else

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 04:25:00 +0000

As I'm writing this there are fireworks going on over the nearby ballpark. Sometimes I think how lucky I am that I live where I can make the assumption that big loud bangs are fireworks rather than some of the alternatives and that jets screaming through the air above are doing an airshow. My dogs on the other hand have no preconceived notions and immediately go crazy every time there are fireworks. Fireworks are so old fashioned... but nothing has come along to take the place of fireworks. What would be interesting enough to take their place? Does it have to have a hint of danger?

Laws That Were Made to Be Broken

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:57:00 +0000

Doesn't it seem like some laws were just made to be broken? Most new cars will easily exceed any speed limit in the United States. Does anyone really drive the speed limit as they weave through their neighborhood. If car makes and municipalities really wanted to keep drivers from breaking the speed limit laws, the technology required probably wouldn't be that difficult. First start with the car design. The car itself tied to a GPS system could evaluate the speed limit and warn the driver that he or she is operating outside the legal limit. I bet that nifty little GM OnStar that assists drivers could easily be modified to 'assist' the driver stay within the law. But drivers don't want to stay within the law... and if drivers don't want to stay within the law, why do we have the laws.

So will there be changes over the next 50 years in automotive safety technology and will it change transportation in general?

Everyone's A Reporter

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 23:55:00 +0000

It's big news that a reporter caught Barack Obama making some comments that I'm sure he'd rather not have been recorder. There's a lot of discussion about how the reporter was let into the fundraiser at all, but in today's world, isn't everyone a reporter? With today's cell phones, people can easily take videos, record conversations and take pictures. We're in a time when bloggers are the first to report events. What new pressures does that put on politicians? What will the people running for president in 2050 be like growing up in an environment like this?

But Was The Information Flying to China?

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 02:30:00 +0000

Yesterday's post was about how information was flying around during the events of the San Francisco Olympic Torch run, but one has to wonder.... how much information is flying around China? Is it possible to keep up with technology when technology and politics are completely linked together? Before the internet countries like Russia and East Germany could control information because it was mainly in print and on TV. It wasn't hard to limit the type of information that people had access too. Scientists could have access to the best information in their field and the government could keep those same scientists relatively in the dark in terms of politics. The Olympic athletes could be proud of the good and ignorant of the bad. But today, to strive to have your country compete with other countries, the people have to have free access to information, and with that access comes change.

What's going to happen twenty years from now to those countries that try and control access to information?

The Torch Was Never So High Tech

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:45:00 +0000

I live in San Francisco and I happen to work right near where the Olympic Torch was supposed to start it's very short journey in San Francisco. There were Chinese supporters bused in for the event, protesters of all sorts as well, as a few people who just wanted to see the Olympic Torch, lined up ready to do their thing as the torch went past, but due to some 'altercations' that occurred in the morning, the Torch route was changed at the last minute and for the most part, the sidelines of spectators along the new route were pretty empty.

It's amazing how the Internet and cell phones have changed things for events like this. A huge police force was down with the groups of protesters and supporters, but many probably had to be rerouted quickly to the new location. There were at least five helicopters hovering over the event. The news was being updated with pictures as events occurred. People could use their cell phones to call people at home and find out what was going on rather than hanging around wondering. Information was flying everywhere.

Snap, Your Identity has Been Captured

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000

I was at a store over the weekend and the person behind the counter mentioned that she always asks to see ID because of all the problems with identity theft. She then went on to tell the tale of how she's heard that the latest form of stealing credit card numbers is for the person behind you to snap a picture of your credit card as you are handing it to the salesperson with his or her cell phone. I didn't bother to point out that asking for a photo ID means that the person standing behind you could also get a picture of that making the possibility of successfully stealing your identity even that much more certain.

I'm always wondering what the next form of identification will be. Will finger print readers become much more commonplace? Will there be a push for some kind of DNA reader? Just sluff off off a few skin cells to make a purchase? Retinal scans? And by giving more secure forms of identifications, will we be giving up a piece of ourselves?

Were They All Hiding Their Ipods?

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 22:04:00 +0000

I think it was the classic movie "The Time Machine" where the main character travels through time and the people of the future have shelves of books that are falling apart and they don't know what to do with them. The character is horrified that people no longer read.

What would someone from the past feel today walking into an office where people everywhere are tuning out the world with their ipods? Would it fill someone with horror or would it intrigue him or her? Would today's fascination with computers be considered a scary evolution where people are distancing themselves from each other or would people be jealous of the quick not to mention global communication that is now easily accessible?

Are There Better Books Today?

noreply@blogger.com (McL) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:00:00 +0000

I was thinking about last Friday's post about how Amazon is changing the rules on the POD publishers and I started thinking about how many more potential books there must be today in comparison to fifty years ago.

And going back even further, before the typewriter, people had to write out their work by hand, go back and check and do all their rewrites by hand. That work alone must have turned off the majority of people who had an inkling that they might like to be a published writer.

Today with kids being able to touch type practically from the time they enter grade school, people can write out what they think, almost as they are thinking it. (Hence why blogging is so popular.) People who fifty years ago would have been considered idiots when it came to spelling and grammar can simply run 'spelling and grammar check' and while it doesn't fix everything it certainly fixes a lot more than what happened before computers. (I just spelled grammar wrong and my computer practically shouted out loud that it needed to be fixed.) And where writing groups might have once been hard to come by, the internet makes it much easier for people to exchange their work either through email, online groups, online workshops, etc in order to polish their work to a higher level than ever before.

So I was thinking that there must be a lot more 'quality' books out there than ever before. Since people who in the past might have had a great story to tell or lesson to teach are now able to easily put their words into writing. But on the flip side, the agents and publishers out there must have to weed through huge fields of material where they used to have just a nice manageable pile of submissions.

What does this mean will happen in the future? Is the day of the formally published book coming to an end? The music business is already seeing the impact of their work being exchanged in digital format and eventually if e-books catch on, this could be a concern for writers as well (maybe it is even now.) In the music business, people will pay to hear their favorite performers live... if a writer spends years on a book and everyone exchanges it digitally, will writers be able to make any money? If writers can't make any money will quality books disappear?