In the old days making a trade was the best form of commerce: "My horse for your two pigs." Although, not too sure how the livestock felt about being used as a currency or economic units. It worked for many, many, many years. These days, it's a whole new bit. Simon Fraser University recently announced it will take Bitcoin as payment for its bookstore. The senate gave a message to Canadian Government to keep their hands off regulating these new virtual currencies. Bitcoin has ... [more]
Favourite places: Where do you like to hang out?
Just hangin' out with a friend is always a good place to be at anytime. We are all lucky to have favourite people, pets and places where we can connect and re-engage our brains to remember all of our memories. They say with just thinking about a memory, many people can simultaneously and virtually transport their brains to experience the full reality again in their mind. This is where the future of technology is taking us next, to wire our brains so we can be anywhere, anytime and everywhere ... [more]
Is oil really worth it and should we still be risking our lives for it?
How could we ever explain the killing of life in our oceans and on our lands to future generations? The tar sands, steam and underground oil/shale fracking, deep sea oil rigs, the pipelines and the railcar oil spills ... all of which keeps happening. Will oil ever really be safe? Of course not, it was a bad idea to keep around this long. Could it stop, or would it stop if we all stopped shopping around to keep buying more gas? What if we all drove electric cars? No, nothing will stop ... [more]
If time was money, how much would it be worth?
Check out this time/money comparison: Let's say you had $1 million and you wanted to buy more time? How would that work? A) Buying time by the minute: So $1 million divided by 1,440 minutes in a day = 694 days. Then divide the days by seven days for each week and you now have 99 weeks. This would get you 1.9 years ... which is not too bad. B) Buying time by the second: So one hour multiplied by 60 seconds x 24 hours = 3,600 per hour each day. This converts to (1440 minutes x 60 ... [more]
How we spend it today: Who’s watching our watchers?
Used to be a penny saved, was a penny earned. Now that we don't really have pennies what happens? Is anything saved anymore... or do we just spend it more and more until our credit runs out? Has everyone's spending gone wildly out of control today? Now millions are not enough anymore. In fact millionaires are a dime a dozen these days... Now you need to be a Billionaire! It used to be you had a million, you would good - be set for life. Not if you planned to live in a city like ... [more]
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