tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68830477815786333692024-03-19T05:19:55.013-04:00America's Future: 2020-2050Focused on the "Future of America" and the "American Dream" in the 21st Century.Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.comBlogger96125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-14297728555238389392024-01-11T17:07:00.006-05:002024-01-15T10:02:28.245-05:00Sapiens: Brief Book ReviewJust read a great book well worth buying. “Sapiens” provides a
new, groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution
that explores the ways in which
biology, technology, and history have defined us, civilization, and
our understanding of what it means to be “human.” See
Sapiens:
A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Excellent
chapters on the evolution and importance of Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-90788523461190520782023-12-08T10:56:00.000-05:002023-12-08T10:56:20.166-05:00Brief Overview of the ‘Theory of Cosmic Consciousness’ I
was recently led to read CosmicConsciousness: A Study in the Evolution of the Human Mind, a
1901 book written
by
the philosopher and psychiatrist in which the author Richard Maurice Bucke explores
the concept of cosmic consciousness defining it as a higher form of
consciousness than that currently possessed by most ordinary men. An
interesting read. See
https://Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-49627626558892376602023-10-21T17:18:00.002-04:002023-10-21T17:20:12.919-04:00Keep a Closer Eye on Biocomputers and Quantum Computing Technology
Over a decade ago, I wrote several blogs providing a management
overview on emerging Biocomputer
and Quantum
Computing technologies. At that time, these new computers were
just emerging from the theoretical stage and initial prototypes were
finally under development and being tested.
Today, we have moved
on into the production and distribution of the 1st
generation of these new systems and Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-1009887183536039642023-10-14T12:02:00.002-04:002023-10-14T12:02:30.275-04:00Misinformation, Disinformation, and ‘Fake News’ in the 21st Century
The following is a high level overview on the spread of
Disinformation, Misinformation, ‘Fake News’, or Outright Lies
about Religion, Healthcare, Politics, UFOs, Aliens, International
Affairs, Economy, Stock Market… in this 21st century
‘Information Age’. It is more rampant than ever on today’s
cable TV channels, the Internet, the blogosphere, social media, and
other sources of information.
Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-17093843293586322172021-11-07T10:18:00.005-05:002021-11-07T10:18:46.480-05:00Brief Overview of Human Life Extension Research, Technologies, and SolutionsThis blog provides a very
brief overview of the latest news and articles about the research,
technologies, and initial activities being pursued in the field of
‘Human Life Extension’. Investment
and research into anti-aging and life extension solutions has picked
up, but major progress still appears to be a long
ways
off.
Human
Life
Extension:
Involves
the
concept ofArtists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-90576222780955628642021-05-09T10:56:00.004-04:002024-01-01T09:45:47.330-05:00Overview of the Larest Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence CommunityThe following is a brief overview of the recently released report by
the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) entitled
“2023 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community”.
After reading the overview, you might want to download a copy of the
report so you can study it more indepth.
Excerpts from
the Foreward section of the report:
In
the coming year, Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-53970958423485393402020-08-01T08:25:00.003-04:002020-08-01T08:25:44.238-04:00A 'New Normal' for Sports Moving Forward
America
is being forced to change rapidly and embrace a ‘New Normal’ way
of life in America - driven by the COVID-19 pandemic and enabled by a
wide range of new technologies. This includes the world of collegiate
sports.
This
article provides a high level overview of the world of eSports that
has been steadily gathering a larger viewing and playing population
across the U.S. and around the Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-56012589608776804732020-07-13T14:43:00.006-04:002020-08-04T09:07:52.941-04:00The New Normal Heading to 2030 and Beyond
America
is being forced to change rapidly and embrace a ‘New Normal’
way of life in America - driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, climate
change, racial and gender bias, coupled with a wide range of new
technologies.
We all find ourselves caught in the midst of a global
pandemic that is impacting everyone on Earth. Millions have
caught COVID-19 and hundreds of thousands are dying from it. For muchArtists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-91054309484338558442020-05-28T17:07:00.003-04:002020-05-28T17:10:24.174-04:00Top Issues and Challenges Facing American in 2020
“We
the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect
Union, establish Justice, insure Domestic Tranquility, provide for
the common Defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the
Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and
establish this Constitution
for the United States of America.”
Several
hundred years have passed since the Constitution of the Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-66654427733983520042020-01-30T10:54:00.002-05:002020-01-30T10:54:30.068-05:00Overpopulation: Efforts to Reduce the World’s Population
The issues of human overpopulation and related issues of climate
change, global hunger, and mass migrations have now caught the
attention of the world. The following is a brief overview of the
human overpopulation and some of the efforts and activities that are
now being taken to contain and reduce the world’s population to a
more sustainable level.
Human
Overpopulation
Overpopulation Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-370452851897428002020-01-30T10:51:00.000-05:002020-01-30T10:51:36.773-05:00What Do Women See Happening Over The Coming Decades?
What
do women expect to see happen over the coming decades?
What do they want to see happen? This blog is based on a
review of numerous articles and studies published over the past two
years and presents the following major findings. This important
subject is something we should all take the time to examine a bit
more closely. Lets start with some high level US and Global
demographics.
Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-83554855618947952912020-01-30T10:47:00.002-05:002020-01-30T10:47:32.807-05:00What Do Today’s Youth See Happening Over the Coming Decades?
What
do today’s Youth
expect to see
happen over the coming decades? What do they want
to see happen? This
blog is based on a review of numerous articles and studies published
over the past two years and presents the following major findings
about the youth of
today.
Youth:
Defined as the time of life when one is young, and often means the
time between childhood and adulthood.Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-27913065926102700602019-11-27T09:31:00.001-05:002019-11-27T09:31:38.851-05:00Laws Governing Outer Space and Interplanetary Activities in Our Solar System
For those of you interested
in Outer Space -
This article provides a
brief overview of the current laws
and regulations
developed to date
related to Outer Space, Inter-Planetary Exploration and Colonization,
Mining Asteroids, Policing and Enforcement, Commercialization,
Ownership and much more. As we gear up to become an Interplanetary
species, we need to do a lot more thinking about these and Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-53879627653087561032019-07-05T10:43:00.001-04:002019-07-05T11:04:00.962-04:00Clausewitz - Timeless Insight from a Master Strategist
Clausewitz on Strategy
Inspiration and Timeless
Insight from a Master Strategist
Summary
- Carl
von Clausewitz's classic book, “On
War”, is not a book about business. It is a book about military
strategy that can be readily applied to business.
Clausewitz's
theories can train the modern executive's mind to cope with
uncertainty. Just as conditions change rapidly in war, rendering Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-42711178098767069132018-11-24T10:38:00.001-05:002018-11-24T10:38:12.002-05:00Next Generation Education 4.0 Systems - Part 2
You
may have already run across the terms Industry 4.0, Work 4.0, Health
4.0 … It's now time to start talking about emerging efforts to
collaborate on designing and building next generation Education
4.0 solutions.
The
U.S. is in the process of developing and implementing
Education
3.0, which
is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of ways we have been
moving over the past decade to Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-81617783794414387252018-11-24T10:35:00.000-05:002018-11-24T10:35:08.315-05:00Next Generation Education 4.0 Systems - Part 1
You
may have already run across the terms Industry 4.0, Work 4.0, Health
4.0 … It's now time to start talking about emerging efforts to
collaborate on designing and building next generation Education
4.0 solutions.
The
U.S. is in the process of developing and implementing
Education
3.0, which
is an umbrella term used to describe a variety of ways we
have been moving over the past decade to Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-49905913611069685482018-11-24T10:32:00.000-05:002018-11-24T10:32:08.753-05:00Preliminary List of the Potential Democratic Presidential Contenders in 2020
It’s
time for the Democratic Party to get serious about identifying and
surfacing its top contenders for the 2020 Presidential Election. I
read an article in the Washington Post entitled “The
Top
15 Democratic presidential candidates for 2020” but
it seemed all
over the spectrum andway
off base. The
list contained:
#15
John
Delaney, #14
Michael
Avenatti, #13
Deval
Patruck, #12
Hillary
Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-36954141510674864372018-02-21T12:54:00.000-05:002018-02-21T12:54:09.832-05:00High-Level Overview of Blockchain Technology for Management
The
following is a very high level
management overview
of Blockchain technology at this point in time and next steps to take
for those who want to further explore the business potential of this
new technology.
Blockchains
are a novel approach to the creation of a distributed database
that incorporates a number of existing technologies that can now
be used in new, Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-54159041644873261662018-01-14T15:27:00.000-05:002018-01-15T08:31:27.580-05:00Unraveling the Confusion About Blockchain Technology and Bitcoin
Over the past
several years I have paid interested, but half-hearted attention, to
the topic of Bitcoin and the Blockchain technology it is built upon.
It has been very confusing to try and decipher, but seemed important
enough to stay attuned to as we head into the future.
I recently bought a
copy and read a copy of the book ‘Blockchain
for Dummies’ published in 2017. A great book that is aArtists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-42208636318584788462017-12-20T11:39:00.000-05:002017-12-20T11:39:39.368-05:00Popular Blogs about the Future
The
future, with its many challenges and opportunities, is starting to
unfold with some clarity. We're making the transition into ever
advancing 'green' technologies, biotechnology, information
technology, new transportation systems, online education, open source
solutions, ehealth systems, robotics, and much more.
We're
changing old ways of doing business, steadily moving to a more Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-18057594993025067392017-12-19T10:40:00.002-05:002017-12-19T10:40:26.590-05:00Interested in America's Future? Key Links, News and Reports
For those of you interested in the 'Future of America', check out the following links to articles & news sites focused on major global industries - with an emphasis on the 2020-2050 timeframe:
Agriculture in 2050
Aviation Industry in 2050
American Politics in 2050
Banking & Financial Industry in 2050
Construction Industry in 2030
Crime in 2030
Defense Industry Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-46063899196838186812017-12-19T10:16:00.003-05:002018-03-29T13:50:18.783-04:00America's Future - Getting Back on CourseAll Americans need to be more concerned
about our future and hold business and government leaders at every
level accountable for taking positive action to get us back on a path to a brighter future.
America needs to continue to retain our leadership in innovation,
selectively building up our industrial base, investing in 'green'
technologies, becoming energy independent, caring for ourArtists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-3057141010573984482017-11-25T15:41:00.002-05:002017-11-25T15:51:40.576-05:00Outer Space: Overview of Current Activities and Future Plans
Once the domain of
superpowers only, outer space activities now include an expanding set
of nations whose numbers continue to grow. Although only 13 of
approximately 70 governmental space agencies across the world have
actual launch capabilities, many of the other nations are already
participating in a wide array of space-related activities, For
example:
Many nations are now
operating Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-28062475729895477002017-06-06T01:11:00.003-04:002020-10-18T14:38:45.800-04:00High Level Predictions about Life in the Year 2100
I have previously written a
series of articles
about Technology Advancements and Life
in
2050. In this article a
first
attempt is made to project even further into time and make
predictions about life by the end of the century –
Year 2100.
By then we will have completed the transition from a
Type 0 to a Type 1 Civilization. (Revisiting this article again during the coronavirus pandemic of Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6883047781578633369.post-3053563334730223602016-08-31T14:40:00.000-04:002016-09-10T23:47:39.043-04:00Global Health 4.0 for 2040 and Beyond
Health
4.0 focuses on collaboration,
coherence,
and convergence – or connecting all available health information,
services, devices and people together in a more meaningful way. See
Global
Artificial Intelligence Network for 2040.
Future
Scenario: By 2040, a space-based global artificial
intelligence (AI) network of satellites will be put in place that
will monitor and help Artists Aflame - Peter Groenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04681516348404413163noreply@blogger.com13