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  • Singularity Signposts – Telemedicine on the slow track

    George Rebane The European Space Agency is working on a medical AI called CAMDASS (Computer Assisted Medical Diagnosis and Surgery System).  It has a unique augmented reality user interface (UI) that would allow future astronauts to diagnose and treat complex medical cases when they are in space, and especially when they are at distances that…

  • Afghanistan out of eyeshot

    George Rebane The farce that was Vietnam spawned many books and movies about the chasm between the in-country reality and the evening propaganda we consumed at home.  For me one of the signal tomes about that war was The Bright Shining Lie (1988) by Neil Sheehan.  The best rationale anyone could come up with, after…

  • Ruminations – 28jan2012

    George Rebane Woke up a couple of days ago to a National Propaganda Radio segment on business; those guys sure know how to report them.  Big ballyhoo on Obama’s visit to Intel’s new, highly roboticized chip manufacturing plant, slated to be the largest in the world when it kicks into gear.  The CCO sang loud…

  • From Lysenko Loonies to Climate Change Clowns

    George Rebane The 27jan12 WSJ publishes a major piece ‘No Need to Panic About Global Warming’ signed by sixteen science and technology heavyweights.  From my perspective as a systems scientist, I long ago joined the once lonely voices that pointed out that the climate change alarmists (especially of the anthropogenic global warming stripe) were intellectually…

  • The World’s Economic Freedom Stats for 2012 – America’s slide continues

    George Rebane On our way to a socialist state we are leaving stark signposts of economic decline.  Among the most important is our relative ratings and rankings over the years.  Such data explain away why jobs are leaving these shores, and why they will not come back. In the meanwhile, we are proud to announce…

  • Scattershots – 5 January 2012

    George Rebane •    Iowa produced a tie between Romney and Santorum (within counting error).  It still looks like Romney is stuck at the 25% level when he’s competing with a field of candidates.  This could change in New Hampshire where he is a part time resident.  The interest in the Republican race should continue to…

  • A New Capitalism with Blood and Gore

    George Rebane Al Gore and David Blood have written ‘A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism’ in the 14dec11 WSJ.  This is a remarkable tour de farce that demonstrates conclusively the gross ignorance that both authors have of human nature and capitalism.  We recall that both are also with Generation Investment Management, a private lobbying and investment…

  • Pay Gaps and System D

    George Rebane Frankly, it’s a bit eerie how the events long predicted on RR are ticking off as recently having happened, or about to happen.  Here I want to focus on the infamous pay gap of the American worker, and an economic activity that is hard to track, but globally significant. Income comes in two…

  • Bob Crabb Nails Christmas

    [This cartoon by Nevada County’s irreverent interpreter of all things human and RR regular, RL ‘Bob’ Crabb, appears in its usual slot on the Tuesday opinion page in the 13dec11 Union (here).  I just had to filch it for readers who might otherwise have missed this precise pique through the heart of the perennial political…

  • The Systemic Train Wreck of the American Middle Class

    George Rebane “The truth is that we don’t know how to fix the US labor market – we are in uncharted territory,” says Peter Orszag, Mr Obama’s former budget director, now a vice-chairman of Citi. “It would help to spend more on retraining and on infrastructure and to have a more rational immigration system. But…

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