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Drone Delivery: A Massive Huge Industry Coming Soon to a Doorstep Near You
The path to the future is really many paths, each moving in fits and starts with rapid progress along some and unexpected but ultimately explainable delays along with others. In 2015 I looked in detail at the progress of the drone delivery business. That column,...
Creating a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence
For more than 50 years, scientists, philosophers, and mathematicians have been exploring and perfecting advances in artificial intelligence (AI) while the average person was in the dark about the details and actual capabilities during this time. It wasn’t until IBM’s...
How Many of Today’s Cryptocurrencies Will Still Exist in 2040?
A few days ago, I was listening to episode 597 of the Bad Crypto Podcast and it was rather insightful listening to how Joel Comm and his co-host Travis Wright randomly picked cryptocurrencies from listings on CoinGecko and evaluated them on the spot using a variety of...
Nine Ways Autonomous Transportation will Impact Real Estate
It won’t be long until we see major breakthroughs in the number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on our roadways – both for on-demand passenger travel as well as for product delivery. AV technology is improving quickly, and it appears that the bigger inhibitor to more...
Inventing the College Equivalency Scale
There are many ways to absorb the information required to earn the equivalent of a college degree, but it’s only possible to get official college credentials by attending an official institution of higher education. The average annual cost of undergraduate tuition and...
Democracy Vs. Autocracy: What does the Future Hold?
The war in Ukraine hasn’t concluded as of this writing, and victory for either side has yet to be determined. But regardless of how this tragedy turns out, to the surprise of many people worldwide, the bulk of Russia’s ground-based military was stopped in its...
Creating New Countries in the Future will be Challenging at Best
Would the world be better off with relatively more countries or relatively fewer countries? Are the countries we see across the world meeting the needs of the world and their citizens? Should we celebrate or be concerned about the formation of new countries? Most...
How much will my metaverse real estate be worth ten years from now?
We're starting to see metaverse real estate companies and developers coming out of the meta-woodwork, but everyone seems to have that lingering question in the back of their mind: Is this a good investment? And how much will it be worth ten years from now? Before we...
How to Run a Cooking School in the Metaverse
While it's already possible to run a virtual reality (VR) cooking school in the metaverse, one that demonstrates a three-dimensional Julia Child approach to preparing food, there are several emerging technologies that will add entirely new sensory experiences. These...
Are We Alone? The Fallacies and Misguided Thinking behind the Drake Equation
The Drake equation was formulated in 1961 by Dr. Frank Drake, an astronomer and astrophysicist, for purposes of beginning the process of quantifying the number of civilizations that might exist in the universe. It’s a very imprecise, back-of-the-envelope equation – I...
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