If you think Google, Facebook, or even LinkedIn, are ‘charities’ and primarily concerned with the task of “serving mankind” I would say you are deluded. ========== By Robert Thomson WSJ 4/5/2017 ‘Fake news” has seemingly, suddenly, become fashionable. In reality, the fake has proliferated for a decade or more, but the faux, the flawed and the fraudulent are now pressing issues because the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Fake News and the Digital Duopoly
April 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, TechnologyBill Gates on Robots
March 30 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, Tax Issues, TechnologyBill Gates is a smart guy, but I think he is missing the point with his view of robots and the impact on jobs. ===== WSJ 4/26/2017 By Andy Kessler Bill Gates, meet Ned Ludd. Ned, meet Bill. Ludd was the 18thcentury folk hero of anti-industrialists. As the possibly apocryphal story goes, in the 1770s he busted up a few stocking frames—knitting machines used... Read more
The Next American Farm Bust Is Upon Us
February 9 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Economics, TechnologyEcclesiastes 1:9-11 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new?” It has been already in the ages before us. There is no rememberance of later things yet to be among those who come after. ======== WSJ 2/8/2017 ... Read more
Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace – YouTube
January 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Personal, Personal Development, TechnologyThis guy has got the vast majority of it right. I know lots of companies where leaders need to take this message to heart. I mean really take it to heart and be adult enough to do something about it. ================
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IT Modernization.. that’s what the US Gov calls it.
July 12 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Big Govt, Democrat Party, Liberal Press, Obama, Technology, The LeftThe liberal press is not paying that much attention, or are they? ============ WSJ July 10, 2015 7:10 p.m. ET From a Nov. 8, 2013, post by Katherine Archuleta on the “Director’s Blog” of the Office of Personnel Management; she resigned Friday from the agency where cyber thieves stole personal information about more than 20 million people: My first week at OPM is already... Read more
Net Neutrality?
March 14 | Posted by mrossol | Economics, Henninger, Losing Freedom, Obama, TechnologyThese guys must have attended public schools. ===== By Daniel Henninger March 11, 2015 6:58 p.m. ET Washington’s seizure of the Internet is one of the great case studies in the annals of political naïveté. Over several years, leading lights of the Web—among them Netflix,Google and Tumblr—importuned the Obama White House to align itself with the cause of net neutrality. “Net neutrality,” like so many progressivist-y... Read more
