Sunday, December 29, 2013

Ridleys Believe It Or Not: This Day In History December 29, 2013


Ridley's Believe It Or Not--December 29, 2013:  No holidays worthy of note unless in Mongolia enjoying a Mongolian Barbecue and celebrating Independence Day (from China 1911) or here honoring Pepper Pot Soup Day (the soup that won the Revolutionary War by enabling Washington's Army to survive the winter of 1777-8); on this day in 1890, the  U.S. Cavalry in one of its darker moments slaughtered 300 Sioux at Wounded Knee; in 1952 the first transistorized hearing aide was sold; and in  1959 Physicist Richard Feynman gave a speech entitled "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", which is regarded by many as the birth of nanotechnology.     
           We will still need large humans in mind and ethics to capitalize for our good on things so very, very small:   "Every technology—no matter how powerful—is never a solution in itself. It is only a tool, to be used by its owners for good or for ill. This is as true for nanotechnology as it was for electricity or for the printing press before it"  Mike Treder, managing director of Institute of Emerging Technologies and Ethicis. Biggest fear is that are political leaders who cannot balance a budget or create a functional website are not up to this momentous task.  
            Before you get into the frenzy of the BCS bowls (Go Cardinal!), take five and please enjoy the 140 character poems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you like them join 133 growing  followers and  please follow me) and follow my blogs. Always good and incisive and entertaining poems on my blogs--click on links below. www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for an original poem for Christmas just posted and poem on the year in review soon to be posted. 
© December 29, 2013 Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet




 

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