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The Pursuit

TYPE: IPA BREWERY: Six Point,  LOCATION: Brooklyn, NY CONTAINER: 6 pack cans COST: $11.99 ABV: 6.4 RATING: 4 Swigs REVIEWED BY: Dave It was just past 9:33 PM, where the road feels more like a memory than a direction. I’d just left Total Wine in West Palm Beach and the cashier wanted to see my ID–– weird, ’cause I’m well past the expiration date. The cans hissed a little in the bag, as she slid…

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1 Billion Robots And Counting

Isaac Asimov’s The Robots of Dawn presents a vision of intelligent, humanoid robots integrated into society, raising questions about ethics, autonomy, and the boundaries between human and machine. Fast-forward to today, and we see real-world counterparts emerging in unexpected ways. The, now, $1,000.00 Roomba, once seen as a novelty, now quietly symbolizes the normalization of domestic…

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Collision of Performance and Music

There are certain pieces of music that trigger a person’s opiate receptors–– a channel opened–– only they can hear. For me, the performance of, In this Shirt by The Irrepressibles is just that… This performance is a collision of art and music, together of which are greater than the sum of its parts. This combination or artistic expression transcends space and time–– they do not merely coexist––…

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DeepSeek - A bear in a honey pot

I’ve always been a strong proponent of A.I. seeing its potential much like the calculator controversy in the mid-70s. Back then, calculators were briefly banned from U.S. schools because the Board of Education feared they’d dumb down Americans’ proficiency in math and science. Of course, the use of calculators led to landing rovers on Mars. Sure, for every mouse trap there will always be a…

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Lift, Clean & Place

Growing up in the 1950s, the idea of a future without flying cars seemed unthinkable. It was certain we’d see them in our lifetimes. Back then, images of flying cars leaped off the pages of pulp fiction, igniting dreams of airborne highways cluttered with assorted crafts, zipping along on raised avenues. Over the years, countless prototypes have emerged, yet most relied on fixed-wing designs that…

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How Sci-Fi Novels Predicted the Future

Ask anyone if Time Travel exists and the vast majority of those asked will quickly tell you… No! Because they are looking to correct the past and the only direction that time travel exists in, is the future. So what is my proof? Well, I asked ChatGPT to summarize some of the earliest Sci-Fi novels that predicted the workings of the future: And the list was close to what I put together (I added…

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Anyone who has spent time with me discussing technology or science fiction knows that one of the most influential books I’ve ever read is Snow Crash (1992) by Neal Stephenson. For me, it was a trailblazer, lighting the way to ideas often overlooked by mainstream thinking. For anyone entering the field of information technology, it’s like a guidebook for imagining the future. But, amusingly, very…

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Blockchain Voting - not perfect, but a much stronger trap than what we have.

Just as every mousetrap eventually gives way to a more clever mouse, securing elections presents a similar challenge. Evidence of substantial voter fraud in recent U.S. presidential elections isn’t hard to find—I avoid conspiracy theories posted social as well as main stream media feeds, and rigorously fact-check my sources and there is direct evidence of fraud that the mainstream media does not…

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When it comes to asteroids-- close counts

On April 13, 2029, the asteroid Apophis (designated 99942) will pass within 20,000 miles (32,000 kilometers) of Earth—an incredibly close distance in astronomical terms. This asteroid is about 1,100 feet (340 meters) in diameter. NASA assures us there is no risk of Apophis impacting Earth for at least the next century (really). If you’re curious, NASA’s website offers live tracking of the…

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Musk-TRUMP Interview: Cyber War and the Future of Technology Revealed

The night of August 12th 2024, I think the world caught up to Science Fiction: The Musk/TRUMP interview. It was set to start at 8:00 PM ET on the X platform. I logged in and made a bee line to Elon’s feed and tried to join the space, but in doing so the platform froze… As a career IT professional, with an expertise in enterprise monitoring–– having the ability to know what are inside the data…

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The Great Deception

As a writer of science fiction, I draw inspiration from the silent mentors of my past: George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. Like all writers of fiction, I hope to pass on something I have said that others will use as a compass for themselves. Reading George Orwell’s 1984 for the first time in the 70’s was pure fiction to me at the time, but like all Science Fiction they are…

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When will the battle between truth and artificial realities take place?

I came across a fascinating read on BBC.com about fake newspaper companies in the US, which are owned and operated out of Russia; their objective? To spread misinformation. Yes, nothing new here, but read between the lines, where Sci-Fi Writers gather their ideas and see the future in the rear-view mirror. Synopsis for novel, Feed©: “In the year 2224, the world is a place where truth and…

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A Day At Sea with A.I.

I recently gave a talk on writing and a section of that talk was dedicated to tools of writing of which A.I. was one of those tools. When mentioning the use of A.I. for writers, some immediately think, Cheating! Yes and No. If I am using A.I. to cut and paste into something I call my own, then I have gained nothing and I would not consider myself to be a writer. If I use A.I. as a tool (muse),…

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Hazed & Confused

TYPE: Hazy IPA BREWERY:Emerson’s LOCATION: Dunedin,NZ CONTAINER: 350 ml COST: unknown ABV: 5.8 ABV RATING: 5 swigs REVIEWED BY: Dave Before me stood a grove of tangled palm trees that stood like drunken sailors waiting to reboard their ship. And that is what I’m about to do, sitting waterside at a hotel bar in Auckland, listening to opera from someone singing who shouldn’t… but she can sing…

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A robot in every pot!

It was during the 1928 Presidential campaign, the slogan “A Chicken in every pot and a car in every garage,” was coined. I was reading a briefing from Goldman Sachs, this morning, of their analysis that the robotics industry may grow faster than expected—AI being a catalyst— and the need for humanoid robots are on the rise. They are predicting a world market value of $38B by 2035– a six-fold…

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SORA - Things just got a lot more complicated.

Open AI’s new platform, SORA is mind bendingly crazy beautiful. The platform (model) was developed to create realistic… and I mean realistic… scenes from text. The current model can produce video up to one minute long, which is long enough to change reality. The SORA model was released to the RED TEAMERS, who will weigh in on the safety, risks & Harm aspects of releasing this to the wild. This, I…

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Mystic Men

It seems like OMD’s song “Maid of Orleans” and how it might have been overlooked is not uncommon; many significant events, whether in music, art, or other fields, can sometimes be overlooked or not receive the recognition they deserve in their time. When I heard this song back in 1981, I was living in Noank, CT with my best friend, George (God rest his Soul). We were different in many ways but…