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  • Where Are They Indeed?

    George Rebane There are about 2,500 galaxies (not stars) in the picture below – each of even the smallest dots is a galaxy.  Each such galaxy has about 300 billion stars, and each star has at least five planets.  Today we can see over 2,000,000,000,000 = 2 trillion such galaxies.  Fainter galaxies exist but don’t…

  • Demise of Capitalism?

    George Rebane The world’s population is stabilizing, if not starting to ‘stagnate’, and will soon start declining.  This argument and its impacts on humanity are presented in two newly published books – The Human Tide: How Populaton Shaped the Modern World (2019) by Paul Morland, and Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline (2019)…

  • Toward our transhuman future

    George Rebane Elon ‘I’ll try anything new’ Musk just announced a new development in brain-computer communications that was made at Neuralink, his recent investment in man-machine symbiosis.  Yes, it will take a while before we can command Alexa or Siri with our thoughts and have the results delivered as directly perceived knowledge/data.  But Neuralink’s approach…

  • Scattershots – 4feb19 (updated 7feb19)

    George Rebane My heart goes out to our cartoonist Bob Crabb in his kerfuffle with a (fellow?) progressive lady who has accused him of dissing the transgender community with one of his offerings. (more here)  I know Bob, and he would be the last on the planet (if not Nevada County) to ever knowingly hurt…

  • Fearful Writing

    “We write at root to make sense of life. And what do we seek to understand more than anything? Our deepest fears.”  Josh Weil George Rebane Union publisher Don Rogers’ Friday essay – ‘Write where you fear the most’ – was an unexpected helping of food for thought this morning.  Mr Rogers takes us through…

  • Scattershots – 22nov18 (updated 26nov18)

    George Rebane Forcible female mutilation is again legal in America.  “A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that the U.S. law banning female genital mutilation was unconstitutional and dismissed charges against several doctors in Michigan who carried out the procedure on underage girls as part Muslim sect’s religious practice. … U.S. District Judge Bernard Friedman ruled…

  • ‘A copernican answers Fermi’ (updated 21nov18)

    “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” – A.C. Clarke’s Third Law George Rebane Last month we were encamped with two other couples at Hat Creek in northern California.  It was a delightful trip – the weather was fine, the food, drink, and the friends superb.  Actually, we’re all experienced “road warriors” having traveled…

  • Monopsony and the travails of capitalism (updated)

    George Rebane Monopsony – the market condition that exists when there is one buyer. Nobody has said that capitalism is the perfect way to organize society and commerce; it has just beat the bejeezus out competitors since King Louis XVI lost his head in 1793.  But capitalism does have its inevitable warts.  I was reminded…

  • “Biased Algorithms” – Advent of Politically Correct AI

    George Rebane [9apr18 – An edited version of this commentary appeared (here) in the 9apr18 edition of The Union.] Do you want to see the latest on how the progressives plan to take down our lead in one of the few remaining areas of technology in which we are still the world’s gold standard?  Tolerated…

  • And then what shall we do?

    The company that pits its labor against another’s use of technology loses.  The worker who pits his labor against technology loses. – The John Henry Law & Corollary George Rebane [This is the linked transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 31 January 2018.] Let’s take a break from the political goings on in Washington and…

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