Wednesday, 26 August 2015

Check-In: 2015-08-25 (Tuesday)

Body: walking (lots), diet
Mind: documentaries and talks, visit to Edmonton Public Library
Spirit: documentaries and talks, walking outside
Social: visiting with friends

Yesterday was another brain day. I've run across a website called Singularity University that deals with the exponential curves of human activity. You've probably heard of Moore's Law, the prediction (validated by decades of data) that computing power increases at exponential rates. But this also applies to manufacturing, finance, and many other aspects of human life as well.

SU even managed to get me to take a second look at solar panels as a possible, viable energy generation solution for the future. Not unassisted, I don't think, but Ray Kurzweil, an executive at Google, pointed out that the Human Genome project had only 1% of the genome mapped half way through the project--yet still completed on time. He says that solar panels are following a similar exponential curve.

Anyway, the future is loaded with interesting possibilities. I am now off to visit Edmonton Startup to explore them further--and just to do some work on my laptop.

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