History
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The old breakup line from our youth coming back but this time it’s the United States breaking up with the Global Order. Here’s a Gen X classic video that fits beautifully: The new US tariffs are just the beginning of the final unwinding of globalization that was initiated by the Americans starting in 1944, through…
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This week Elon Musk announced the Tesla “Cybercab”. At the same time he announced “We, robot everything” Which leads us to ask the obvious question “Would you trust an autonomous system?”. Even if it was built by Elon Musk’s Tesla? System engineering safety into a product is a difficult task. Notice I said “into”. You…
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When two tribes go to war A point is all that you can score Have you picked your side? Red v. Blue. Quite a July 2024 here in the US. Attempted assassination, GOP Convention, presidential run switcharoo. August will bring us the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. The gaslighting is epic. They will continue to…
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Long time no see. It seems the whole world is coming apart (and it is). In the next series of blog posts, I will attempt to address multiple layers of history and social / economic cycles to explain what’s happening in our world, focused on the waves of change and where we might be going.…
GenX Turns Fifty 