I’m pleased with the price of gas. Change is already happening. Our Mayor came back from a climate conference where one speaker said the measured particulates in the air are already slightly lower since gas went up. He said people cheered. Elementary economics: Price changes behavior. Global warming warning signs are coming faster and harder …
Alan Greenspan has much in common with many of my favorite classic science fiction writers. Heinlein, Niven, and others claim Libertarian leanings, and so does Greenspan. They are also all pretty smart people that really want to understand the world. Greenspan’s book is pretty close to a key about how some parts of the world …
Musing on Alan Greenspan’s book, The Age of Turbulence Read More »
From my last few blogs … From the September 11th vigil, and relating to future vigils…the Citizens on the Lake for Peace website. Nicely done. Second…I really think good engineers might save the world some day. Part of that could be because my dad is one, and he saved me a few times…but aside from …
So I did go to the vigil last night. It felt like it made September 11 meaningful. I even took the microphone once, and said something about how we had squandered a great chance for world peace in the year after 9/11 by choosing bombs instead of care packages and education, by choosing guns instead …
Six years ago tomorrow my alarm clock, set to NPR news, delivered me into a waking nightmare. Sometimes I am still convinced it must be a bad dream – its hard to believe we squandered the outpouring of world support, mired ourselves in a pointless war when we should have given the Middle East a …
Figures that as soon as I mention how I almost never watch TV (so I have time to write), I’d get caught up in a show. I took four hours out of my life to watch “God’s Warrior’s” on CNN, an excellent bit of investigative reporting by Christiane Amanpour. The series was three two-hour shows, …
I just finished listening to this book on Audio CD on my iPod. There are a lot of messages in it, some delivered in a more balanced way than others. But the most important topic is one I often talk about when I give keynote speeches: the conversation about the future is one of the …
Reading Recommendation: Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason” Read More »
