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Data

It is estimated that in 2013 there was 4.4zettabytes of data.  This data apparently is growing at a rate of 40% a year.  So for 2020 it is estimated that there will be 44 zettabytes of data available.   So how much of that data is just a glut of useless...

Smart City

The city of the future will be a “Smart City”.   The camera and sensors and all of the other measurable that are being implemented will minimally be looking to monitor the following:   Air quality Pedestrian traffic Energy production Energy usage Health and...

Time

Time is our most precious resource.  We all have an expiration date; we just don’t know when that date will occur.   Surprisingly one of my kids has recognized this much sooner than I did when I was young.  He has quit low paying jobs, believing that his time was...

Death

Death, one of the inevitable constants in our world, next to taxes.   Do you have a plan for how to deal with yours?  My in-laws told my mother and her husband about their plans to be cremated, and that they had already prepaid for this service.  So all that...

Phone Apps

How many phone apps do you have on your cell/smart phone right now?  I bet you have no idea.  I know I don’t.   DO you have apps that you have never used?  I know I do, I have 3 Sudoku apps that I have never used.  I gravitate to one and only use that one.  ...

Estate Tax Exclusion

If the combined value of the couples’ estate at the first spouse’s death is less than the Federal exclusion amount, the surviving spouse and the other heirs of the estate are not likely to spend the time or money to prepare a Federal Form 706 to make the deceased...

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