News from johnpatrick.com – 12/02/2022
It’s All About Attitude All six books now have updated covers. Great work by Billy Wright. Hopefully, potential readers will find them refreshing and interesting. Ads are now running on Amazon, Facebook, and Google. The narrator for the Audible version of Reflection Attitude got a cold and this has delayed things a bit. I hope […]
When Have We Seen Enough Drug Advertising?
Custom image created by Perplexity AI When Have We Seen Enough Drug Ads on TV? One of the topics I have written numerous magazine articles about and been on-the-air in interviews about has been direct-to-consumer (DTC) TV advertising of prescription drugs. I felt strongly about the issue more than ten years ago and feel even […]
Advertising
Custom image created by Perplexity AI Advertising I am on the road to recovery. Since discharge from the rehabilitation hospital, I have been exercising every day. Either mid-morning or mid-afternoon, I head downstairs to the home gym. Six weeks ago I could not go up and down stairs. I start out with 15 minutes on […]
Digital Democracy Project
Serving on boards, both corporate and non-profit, is a very rewarding experience. Not financially — but in the sense that you have been able to help with a new idea, or to share an experience that can be helpful. I have been privileged to have served on a number of boards. The two largest organizations […]
Quantum Computing
Dr. Mark Hirko, Dr. Paul Wright, Dr. John Patrick at Watson Research Quantum Computing What looks like a fancy chandelier in the picture is actually the heart of an IBM quantum computer. AI is still at the top of my list of technologies which is changing the world, but another transformative technology further out but […]
Solar
s Solar For as long as I can remember, I have believed the sun would ultimately be our main source of power. The sun is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, roughly 4.6 billion years old, which generates energy through nuclear fusion, a science which has attracted billions of dollars for research to reproduce […]