I have noticed that my solar panels SEEM to be generating more electricity. I have not done an advanced analysis of this but it is the impression I get.

...robots and AI individuals to start paying their fair share of taxes.

I made a contribution to an organization I like and added a note that I didn't want them to call or release my name. It was with a check and didn't include a phone number. They looked up my phone number and started calling me for donation. What I found particularly irksome is that they proceeded to sell or exchange my name and phone number to dozens of other organizations and I was getting calls every day from people begging me for money. Because of this I don't give money to many charities except when I can give cash in person. (Such as at my grocery store where you can buy bags of food to donate to the local food bank, but usually only around Thanksgiving or Christmas.)

I've been thinking about going to the Post Office and buying a money order and mailing it to the public TV station but haven't gotten around to it. When I make a modest donation to a non-profit or a charity I want the money to go to the cause, not to paying for more fundraising.

And redevelop the land.

...on knowledge domains.

When Google first came out it was a wonder. It saved me an enormous amount of time (=money) in locating information I needed. But it rapidly deteriorated. I remember when there would be people who rejoiced that X billion new pages to their database. I found that with each massive growth of the site it became harder and harder to find the information that I wanted.

I am retired now, but at once upon a time worked develoing applications in Cold Fusion. It was often easier to location a bit of information by enterin a description of what I wanted in a search engine and finding the answer as opposed to pulling out multiple books and checking the indexes. Data when searching the term Cold Fusion clustered in three areas - the application programming language, articles about nuclear energy, and long dissertations that were basically crackpots babbling. For a while it was possible to narrow the search by doing searches of comp Usenet newsgroups, but Google killed the facility of that when they smashed their Google Newsgroups into the mix, and the New York State attorney general then killed Usenet.

But the idea of knowledge domains impicit in the Usenet heirarchy would be very valuable if it could be applied to the internet. Usenet kept control of which groups could be added to 7 of its top levels and alt was free-for-all. Instead of searching the comp.lang.coldfusion Usenet group it would be good to have a search engine at http://coldfusion.lang.comp./ [coldfusion.lang.comp] Whatever organization controled the site could determine what web sites were worthy of being included in the searchable database. All of the automated spam was a major problem on Usenet. Having control on what sites to cover would go a long way to alleviating this problem.

Of course, I have no power or influence about setting this up. All I know is that as far as I am concerned, the internet is fundamentally broken.

I've wondered for quite a while now how scientists know that light traveled at the same speed 14 billion years ago as it does now. Of course, if they decided this was a possibility it would throw a lot of calculations off.

... are not these super intelligent coders. They work in the accounting department. I tend to this this is all a scam to suppress worker wages.

... goat simulator.

I heard this episode. They made an interesting point during the show. One reason that the Amazon has survived is the fact that malaria and dengue fever infect people who move into these jungle areas. So the advent of GMOs to control mosquito growth may lead the the clearing of the Amazon. That won't be good.

In fact, my prediction is that the Amazon rain forest will have almost disappeared in a hundred years, largely due to this development.

.... and we have lots of H1-B workers. I've never understood why there is a critical shortage of accounting personnel.

You will be assimilated into the Google hive mind.

The internet is noting what happened to this woman in a bar in San Francisco when she wore Google Glass. She has called this a hate crime. As she notes the product hasn't even been released yet. But when it is released it will be irresistible.

Think of some of the possibilities. An app has been announced Where when you meet someone new in a bar you can take a photo of them and it will search a database and identify who they are. A woman could know if this person is who they say they are, if they are married or has a criminal record. Gay men could know if the guy was on the downlow and what they were packing in their pants. And you could get a review of their performance in bed from your trusted social circle. Priceless. Grindr for Glass can't be far away. And the amazing thing is that people will pay to be assimilated. A lot.

Keep in mind that this is just the start. They are already working on contact lenses that have video displays in the lens. In 50 years the technology will be light years along. Instead of having a earpiece for sound you will have implants. So while non-enhance humans are sleeping you could be learning new things. And Google could improve your mental health by assuring you that you have nothing to worry about from technology and your retirement is perfectly safe in a 401k plan invested in their company. In 50 years the non-enhanced will be at a distinct disadvantage. This woman is a visionary not a clueless Glasshole.

So the Federal Govrnment is issuing patents on drugs that have been deamed Generally Recognized as Safe for decades. These drugs have not been through clinical trials to determine if there are negative health effects. This is one more way in which the government drives up healt care costs. Big-Pharma is freaking out because the patents on many of their cash cows are getting ready to rexpire. They already get extensions on these patents from the FDA. Meanwhile, the drugs we really need, like new classes of anti-biotics, are being ignored. You may recall that at the start of the Gulf War Congress want the drug companies to develop drugs in case the enemy used chemical or biological weapons. Congress guaranteed that they would make a 10% ptofit on their effort. Big Pharma said no, not unless you give us 30% return, which is what they have come to expect. They only want to develop drugs for chronic conditions, not cures. Intellectual property laws are meant to benefit the people. The monopolies that the government gives are not some god-given right but are done so because they benefit the public. I suspect if the government abolished drug patents and paid all of the costs of research the public would benefit more than the current system.

...ass, gas, or grass. Though perhaps they don't say that any more.

They are upset by the intrusiveness of body scanning. However, when terrorists bring down another airplane they will readily accept this type of procedure. And they will complain about how the government hasn't done enough to protect them.

True. But you could answer this type of question anonymously.