Voter ID and Voting Rights
In Election Attitude – How Internet Voting Leads to a Stronger Democracy, I wrote about voter registration. There have been multiple bills to make it easier to register to vote and multiple bills to make it harder. In this post, I offer a point of view on this. It is not intended to be political. […]
Hooked On Pokémon GO
I have never been a gamer because video games make me dizzy. However, I have gotten hooked playing Pokémon GO on the iPhone 7+. I like several things about the game. The technology is impressive. Thinking about millions of people playing the game at the same time with all the results and triggers happening in the […]
Gene-editing May Become Sputnik 2.0
In August I wrote about a team of Chinese scientists having received ethical approval in July to perform a clinical trial of gene-editing. The goal was to test whether gene-editing may be a potential cure for cancer. The trial began in a hospital in Chengdu, China in October. The gene-editing used CRISPR-Cas9, not exactly a household name. CRISPR […]
Predictions
Happy New Year to all. I believe 2017 will be a year full of great progress on many fronts. Here are some of the things I predict will happen: Artificial intelligence will become omnipresent, somewhat like java did 20 years ago. It will be part of all cloud services and devices. Virtual and augmented reality […]
Password Resolution
Make a New Year’s Resolution to get a password manager and clean up and organize all your passwords. You will sleep better and avoid being hacked. There many password managers available. I recommend 1Password. It will create, store, remember, and insert hundreds of long, ugly, and impossible to remember passwords. It is a truly great piece of software. […]