Monthly Archives: December 2013

Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 2 Corinthians 4:16 (NIV) For a 70-year-old, regular workouts at Gold’s Gym aren’t merely a constant physical battle between … Continue reading →

Yesterday’s post bid farewell to jobs that are going to disappear. What about the more positive side? What jobs will be left? What roles can we humans continue to play alongside the robots doing all this other work? As it … Continue reading →

When I was in high school and studying history, I made an electrifying discovery. Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the length of the workweek had been declining. Our history text suggested that as textile mills and the like … Continue reading →

“My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.” – Thomas Jefferson  “We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.” – … Continue reading →

Seems I spend much of my life belatedly learning about things I should have known all along or heard about much earlier. Here’s the latest example. It comes from an article in last week’s print edition of The Economist, entitled … Continue reading →

Time is money. – Benjamin Franklin, Advice to a Young Tradesman, Written by an Old One. This general truism also holds for satellites. George Leopold’s previous post on LOTRW capsulizes DARPA exploration of a novel idea:  building satellites from space-based … Continue reading →

another guest post from George Leopold: What follows goes beyond the realm of blue-sky thinking, extending to what might be called Star Trek-thinking. Nevertheless, we need to start reexamining how we design, build and launch weather satellites with an eye … Continue reading →

If ever a single individual understood this subject and its implications for late 20th-century mankind it was Peter Drucker. He wrote about this early and often, using varying nomenclature: consider, for example, his 1980 book, Managing in Turbulent Times. The … Continue reading →

… that we face locally, everywhere… and globally. In a nutshell, here’s the unending task of living on the real world. We must simultaneously, everywhere, at every moment, and for extended periods, master the threefold job of (1) sipping from … Continue reading →

Mere hours ago, the American Institute of Physics announced that the American Meteorological Society has just become its newest member. The press release cites advantages to members of both organizations, and there’ll be plenty. But they’ll be dwarfed by the … Continue reading →