Author: Dr Wingnut
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The future is now
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The number of possible combinations rises exponentially as the number of new machines or techniques rises arithmetically. Indeed, each new combination may, itself, be regarded as a new super-machine.Alvin Toffler
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What I’m hearing
In a news story yesterday they were talking about how the rate of giving is much less for the flood victims of Pakistan than it was for the earthquake victims in Haiti. They asked if it was donor fatigue.But, they didn’t ask the one question that I heard at the lunch table today, “Why should…
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No more trees
I drove up Hamline Avenue north of Highland Parkway yesterday, and the Saint Paul Forest Service has begun the clear cutting of the ash trees to attempt to stop the spread of the emerald ash borer. The poor street looks so naked — like a new suburb.
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Vision
Our way of life has been influenced by the way technology has developed. In future, it seems to me, we ought to try to reverse this and so develop our technology that it meets the needs of the sort of life we wish to lead.Prince Philip, Men, Machines and Sacred Cows, 1984
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Movie treatment
It might be funny to explore a treatment where one guy drinks, but it has no effect on him, but it makes a total stranger drunk and all the crazy stuff he would do, but never picks up a drink.