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  • ‘Our Best Days Lie Ahead’

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 17 December 2014.] ‘Our Best Days Lie Ahead.’  How many times have we heard some politician or public figure repeat those words into a microphone while looking at a sea of bright-eyed upturned faces?  This claim is almost never backed up…

  • High Tech Quotas (updated 12dec14)

    George Rebane Our high tech industry is literally the last refuge of employment meritocracy, and the increase in our quality of life it has provided is unquestionable.  That may all be coming to an end if our so-called civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson have their way.  You see Jesse and his crew have noticed…

  • Ruminations – 9aug14 (updated)

    George Rebane IBM’s new NeuroSynaptic chip was recently announced and is making a big PR splash in the print and online media (more here and here).  The chip’s processing power is based on the parallel implementation of essentially identical ‘neuronal’ structures that mimic major sections of the brain’s neocortex.  We reported on one such promising…

  • STEM is not powered by STEAM

    George Rebane [This is the addended transcript of my regular KVMR commentary aired on 1 August 2014.] Listeners to these commentaries are aware of how important America’s STEM workforce will be to the future of our country and our quality of life.  Recall that STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and math.  Preparing for a…

  • Administrivia – 19may2014

    George Rebane TypePad has been down all day working to recover from another denial of service attack.  My apologies for the shared frustration.  TypePad uses Twitter to aprise those interested in its status when such outages occur. https://twitter.com/typepad

  • Forecasting by Crowds

    George Rebane [This is the addended version of my regular KVMR commentary which was broadcast on 4 April 2014.] Recently our government has had some problems forecasting events critical to the conduct of America’s foreign policy.  We seem to have missed the boat on calling the response of Iran in its nuclear weapons development, the…

  • A Libertarian Lovefest in Scottsdale (updated 26mar14)

    George Rebane This weekend Jo Ann and I, along with some Nevada County friends, attended the annual retreat in Scottsdale, AZ put on by the Mercatus Center and the Institute for Humane Studies (both at George Mason University).  The conference for liberty prone supporters was a welcome opportunity to hear stimulating speakers, attend breakout sessions…

  • So You Wanna College Degree?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 10 January 2014.] Did you know that college enrollments in the country are dropping?  For all the hullabaloo about American students placing well down on the list in the world’s youth smarts, it turns out that today fewer of our high school…

  • Then what will WE do?

    George Rebane [This is the transcript of my regular KVMR commentary broadcast on 20 December 2013.] If you have been following the non-political side of the news recently, you no doubt have picked up on a hot topic getting hotter – robots and robotics.  In these commentaries we have covered the social impact of robots,…

  • ‘A Future of Failure?’ – A Timely Progressive Lament

    George Rebane ‘A Future of Failure?: The Flow of Technology Talent into Government and Civil Society’ was just published by Freedman Consulting, a progressive policy consultancy run by former staffers of Democrat administrations.  This important report was sponsored by the MacArthur and Ford Foundations, organizations that are much in tune with leftwing causes and central…

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