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Month: February 2011

  • Epochal My Dear Watson

    … and they knew not what they had witnessed. George Rebane Really!  The ease with which IBM’s Watson supercomputer dispatched its champion human opponents on Jeopardy last night, will go down as perhaps the first pre-Singularity temblor on this third planet from the Sun.  During the three session tournament, Watson showed the world what the…

  • Multiculturalism is a Deadly Affectation (updated 21feb2011)

    George Rebane Three European leaders recently concluded very publicly that unassimilated multiculturalism in their countries was not only a failure, but a dangerous failure (here).  In America that is not yet received wisdom as we are again reminded of the ongoing saga of Major Nidal Malik ‘Allahu Akbar!’ Hasan – the Ft Hood Islamic terrorist…

  • Medved Misses on Obama (updated 15feb2011)

    George Rebane Conservative syndicated columnist and radio host Michael Medved writes in the 14feb11 WSJ that ‘Obama Isn’t Trying to ‘Weaken America’’.  His somewhat torturous path through the history of well-meaning Presidents concludes that President Obama isn’t trying to weaken America because he too shares the awe and respect for the office with his predecessors. …

  • English – Going, … going, … gone?

    George Rebane Our English, as a language to express complex and abstract thoughts, is almost absent from conversations of not only the young, but also people already in their forties.  I was reminded of that again during this morning’s sermon when our pastor totally destroyed any notion of properly using personal pronouns – ‘… and then they asked…

  • Time Magazine discovers the Singularity

    George Rebane Readers know that one of the dominant themes of RR has been the Singularity (see the RR Singularity category for more).  As a technologist and AI researcher I have been a Singularitarian for most of my life.  Ray Kurzweil has done civilization the service of becoming the most dominant and credible spokesman for…

  • From Molehills to Megatrends

    George Rebane [This is the submitted version of my 12feb 2011 Union column published today in its print and online version here.] Some of us recall the time of ‘population bombs’, ‘megatrends’, and the coming ice age thawing into ‘hothouse earth’.  The 1970s were a bleak time – a lost war, economy in stagflation, the…

  • The Hope of Homesourcing

    George Rebane Yesterday we lost manufacturing jobs, tomorrow will we lose service jobs?  The fate of the American worker has been a longstanding concern in these pages.  For various reasons our political leadership (both sides) is blind to what is in store for our workers, or they simply want to keep us all docile for…

  • Scattershots – 9feb2011 (updated 11feb2011)

    George Rebane - The next multikulti shoe drops- Obama’s socialist slip is showing Last year Germany’s Angela Merkel let the world know that decades of her country’s attempts to bend backwards to accommodate multi-culturalism (‘multikulti’ to the Europeans) was not working (here).  Specifically Germany was becoming home to hives of unassimilating Muslims living lives quite distinct from…

  • ‘Providing Intellectual Ammunition …’

    George Rebane In the latest package of materials from the Mercatus Center of George Mason University there was an exhortation to today’s conservatives (the classical liberals) to man the intellectual ramparts against the onslaught of socialism.  Their opening argument was from a post-war essay by F.A. Hayek – We must make the building of a…

  • The Unchanging Left View

    George Rebane [This cartoon by my friend, RR reader, political cartoonist RL ‘Bob’ Crabb appeared in the 5feb11 Union op-ed pages.  You might note that we don’t see eye-to-eye on everything.  Oh well.]   No matter the decades of leftwing legislative control that has brought California to its knees; it seems that as long as there remains…

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