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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