Lawrence Krauss, chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists‘ board of sponsors, and Robert Rosner, chair of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ science and security board, said another half-minute has passed, and the Doomsday clock is now set to 2 minutes to midnight. Krauss & Rosner said that President Trump & world leaders haven’t taken enough steps to combat global warming, or the growing threat of nuclear war with rogue states like North Korea.
I find the timing of this move a little suspicious, what with President Trump in Davos, Switzerland for the next few days. Trump’s attitude towards science/scientists in general is poor, so I’m viewing this as a more political/social awareness move than there being an actual and credible cause for alarm.
I'm a guy who's grown up watching the technology explosion and expansion his whole life. I was there when the home gaming console was invented, I had Intellivision & Colecovision, and an Atari 2600. I was there when personal computers became a thing with my Commodore 64, and we used audio cassettes as hard drives and dot matrix printers ruled.
I was there for the birth of cable television, and televisions going from 4:3 to 16:9 aspect ratios. I saw cameras and photography go from analog to digital, just like I watched music, movies, and everything else go digital. I lived in a world without Google and Amazon. I've watched mobile phones go from brief-case sized and mounted into cars. I've seen monochromatic screens change to color, and from non capacitive to full on touch screens. I've watched the rise of social media as well.
I've seen at lot of stuff over my lifetime, so I have some insight into where tech has been that helps me better understand where tech is going. Check it out.
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