Obama and Captain Planet Team up!

Despite his clear lack of motivational umph, there was enough gas in President Obama's recent State of the Union address to spark my attention. The enthusiastic goal to reach 80% clean energy production by 2035 is, to say the least, ambitious. The research and technology required to attain this goal have only recently been conceived, not to mention the billions of dollars that is needed to execute the project may not yet exist. CNET claims that the Obama administration has vowed significant funds to researching methods of clean energy and the construction of clean energy plants. So where is this funding coming from?

As gas prices continue to steadily increase, electric bills keep getting longer. Instead of finding ways to produce more, Obama is searching for better. So does better ⇒ more, or will the energy thief continue to burn holes through our wallets? Unfortunately, gratification will not be immediate. But like all good investments, there will be payoff in the end.

Proof: Cleaner Fuel ⇒ More Energy

1. cleaner fuel ⇒ cleaner environment

2. cleaner environment ⇒ government money allocated to other areas

3. By modus ponens on 1 & 2: cleaner fuel ⇒ government money allocated to other areas

4. government money allocated to other areas ⇒ more R&D for clean energy solutions

5. By modus ponens on 3&4: cleaner fuel ⇒ more R&D for clean energy solutions

6. more R&D for clean energy solutions ⇒ more energy

∴ by modus ponens on 5 & 6 Cleaner Fuel ⇒ More Energy

Thanks Obama for making this world a better place! Captain Planet is proud!

Is That Car Driving Itself?

Email, browser development, maps, and many other web-based projects have been the focus of Google's development since its inception; obviously they would turn next to automobiles. Newsweek claims that payoff for Google may not come for a few years. So why not invest in something useful, like bug-free stock exchange software, or teleportation?

Okay, I admit, there may be some reasonable purpose for cars that drive themselves, but what it truly boils down to in the end is survival. Change is the golden ticket to success in the technology department, and Google is no exception. Just take a look at the leaders in the technology industry. Microsoft was originally a computer language company. Where would they be today if they had not jumped on the IBM train to develop their operating system? Sorry Bill, but let's be honest, we both know BASIC wouldn't cut it.

So why does Google throw money at a futuristic idea? Not because they can, it's because they have to.

Disheveled, disorganized, and drab - My week without internet

When upstairs neighbors move out and take the internet with them, you better start praying for a miracle. My dependency on the internet is alarming. Homework, projects, schedules, collaboration, communication and life as we know it is all based on the wonderfully delicious interweb. I was nearly destroyed not having the internet for a week. Almost a decade ago an article was posted on Newsweek titled "The World According to Google." Seemingly significant changes in society with the advent of google were addressed. I say seemingly because at that time, the author had absolutly no concept of how the world was changing, and where we actually would be 9 years later. Information is at our fingertips; knowledge is obtained by a click of a mouse. Nothing is hidden. How can something be so terrifying and so exhilerating at the same time? I am a sucking child unable to get enough, and unable to let go. I embrace it.

Google

Facebook

Wikipedia

Amazon

CNN

Twitter

Blogger

How did we survive before?