Are You Prepared for Technological Extinction?

By Carl Weiss

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Everywhere you look online there are cutting edge technologies and devices that are promising to revolutionize the way we work the web.  Everything from smart watches to computerized glasses are all the rage right now, along with all manner of wearable devices.  Some of these technologies may indeed prove to be game changers, producing a sea change that will leave more mundane technologies in their wake.  Others will wind up in the hi-tech bone heap.  Either way, as changes come at us faster and faster, we need to find a way to deal with technological extinction, or as I like to call it, "survival of the fastest."

We have all heard the doom and gloom predictions that never came true.  Remember Y2K or the solar flares that were predicted to bring our technology based society to a standstill during the 2013 solar maximum cycle, neither of which ever came to pass?  Sure you do.  While most prognostications have a tendency to generate anxiety based upon how often they are touted by the media, with few exceptions these predictions are much ado about nothing.  And even if they were to come to pass, like the dinosaurs 65 million years ago that wondered what that bright streak across the sky was all about, there isn’t a heck of a lot you can do about impending global catastrophes.

More Star Trek Tech

By Carl Weiss

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Is There a 3D Printer in Your Future?  Most of us that grew up watching "Star Trek" or any of its spinoffs always marveled at the technological prowess that supposedly awaited mankind a couple of centuries in the future.  Particularly if you were weaned on the original Star Trek series that ran from 1966-69, the wonders of the Starship Enterprise were beyond belief.  Remember, this sci-fi series was televised back in the days before man had walked on the moon.  Computers back then were ungainly things that occupied entire rooms, telephones were something akin to a can on a string, since virtually every phone on the planet at that point in time was hardwired.  So the thought that wireless communicators, talking computers, shuttlecraft, phasers, replicators and teleportation was a couple of hundred years in our technological future was not so farfetched back then.