You Learn Something New Every Day

A blog on the technological and spiritual future of the human race.

The joys of free, open-source software

photoshop570.jpgSoftware can be expensive. Just go check out what you have to pay to buy certain things.

A copy of Microsoft Office 2007 costs over $300 as of this writing. Sure, you can use another lesser program like WordPad to write documents. But everybody has Microsoft Office, and WordPad won’t give you spreadsheets and database functions—or PowerPoint presentations. What’s a broke computer user to do? Read on…

A review of Gattaca

Last night I saw this movie with my wife, who had already seen it some years ago. It is about our society “in the not-too-distant future”—when we have gotten to the point of micromanaging genetics. Read on…

Are human beings self-centered?

My answer? Yes, we are very self-centered. Humans can’t be any other way (and neither can anything else I know of). Read on…

The next big thing

Throughout the ages, there has always been something that people go after as the new “big thing”–the next future development that will change how we do things and leave a lasting mark on society. Read on…

« Previous Page