Brown Motion

While Silicon Valley implodes with their gadget mania its believers will consume all that we produce.  So it is with some friends and neighbors who as smart as they are do fall prey to the lure of the tech. One of them, a mom, has decided that she will wear a Fitbit on one wrist and an Apple Smartwatch on  the other.  When asked why - she said the Fitbit tracks her movements better.  'Fitbit' to the uninformed is a physical motion sensor based wrist band/strap that will convert your steps into a digital readout. Now most smart phones already have this feature built into them (at no added cost) but that is not relevant since she believes that this gadget is the best representation of her limbic activity. Also the Apple contraption literally and figuratively is competing for the same activity based messaging with its own branded interface. So for someone like me who is happy to simply get a chance to walk and is least interested in tech for the sak...

This would be the new job title for people being hired at Americas airports.  Our nation it would appear faces two grave challenges both of which happen to have a similar mode of attack.  Aka the Virus. In the first instance the threat of being hacked is grave - it now appears that two out of every one American has been hacked I.e.their identity has been stolen multiple times by hack attacks from entities native and foreign.  One of the mechanisms used to  inflict financial pain is using a man made virus (by so called computer hackers)  that could enter sensitive system vaults at any major financial institution and extract personal information cleaning out your bank account. In the second instance the hacking is in the form of physical heaving caused by strains of different viruses like Ebola and Entero that entered the human body.  This can literally take you to the grave. Reminds me if a Bruce Lee film called ' Enter the Dragon'. Entero and Ebola vi...