Continuations

CERN is getting ready to start operating the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A couple of guys have sued in Hawaii (for lack of funds) to stop it. They have been depicted as kooks and they certainly are not renowned scientists. But even though I am a technology optimist, I believe they have a point. Most of the coverage has focused on scientists disagreeing on the likelihood of various disastrous outcomes which involve the complete destruction of earth (creation of a stable black hole, emergence ...

This blog is titled Continuations because I did not want to call it Closures. If that makes absolutely no sense to you, then some of my geekier posts may not either. You may still want to stick around though because I plan to write about many different things, including venture capital, sailing, skiing, politics, movies and whatever else comes to mind. At some point in the future–when tumblr has this as a feature–I am planning to provide RSS feeds by category.

My trusty Panasonic CF-W2 is now 5 years old and I am worried that the disk will give out any day (backing up frequently). I tend to buy computers a bit ahead of the curve – even though that means paying up a bit – and then keep them until they start to fall apart. My next machine will have a solid state drive for sure. Finally no more moving parts and hopefully no more disk failures. I am seriously considering switching to a Mac now that there is finally a lightweight machine. I wish that Pa...

That’s how I think of myself. I am excited to be living in a time when we are making tremendous progress on understanding aging, fighting cancer, developing clean technologies, and so much more. This is not to say that I automatically assume that technology by itself will solve all our problems (I guess that would be a “technology pollyanna”). Instead I believe that – over time – we as a society figure out how to use technology to actually improve our standard of living. I for one am sure gla...