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The telephone

As Millennials give their elders grief about texting and verbal communications, it seems that some have an irrational fear of the telephone.  Which is a basic piece of technology that their elders consider to be absolutely necessary for day to day communications....

IRS Dirty Dozen

IRS Wraps Up the “Dirty Dozen” List of Tax Scams for 2016 IR-2016-29, Feb. 19, 2016 — The IRS today wrapped up its annual “Dirty Dozen” list of tax scams with identity theft topping this year’s list but with phone scams and phishing...

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...

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