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Technevolution

It's Friday already, and I have not "blogged" as much this week as I would have liked. My tired old computer has been behaving very badly. Between Microsoft's broken Windows and the newer software, which seems to eat up RAM like it can't get enough, my poor old 333Mhz computer is just about wiped out. I tend to multitask a lot, and I often end up with around 10 windows open at once. And of course, they are all major memory hogs- mostly Microsoft products.

Here's an interesting spin on the Microsoft anti-trust issue: maybe if they hadn't been battling the federal government for the better part of the last few years, they could have spent more time fixing up their software so it would run better on my machine. I would rather they had spent the millions of dollars on that, rather than on preparing a legal defense to keep away the packs of wild Attorneys General.

If they had, I would probably be able to run more than 2 or 3 MS programs without my MS operating system locking up. I guess that's too much to ask, and I should just be a good boy and buy the newer, faster, computer that will run plenty fast for about 6 months, until new updates come out for all my programs to slow things back down. It will sure be nice when computers are so fast that this sort of thing isn't an issue, and the same goes for Internet connections.

I try to look that far ahead, and guess at what things will be like 2 generations from now. It's too hard to say- the advances that we are coming up on are pretty squarely in the science-fiction range of stuff, so I think it is getting harder and harder to predict what the future will hold.

As I was writing this, I paused long enough to tune into what song was on, and it happened to be "Evolution," by 311.

So, without realizing it, I was writing the above paragraph while this was on:

"Evolution has exponential timing
It'll be half as long
'Til the next breakthrough that
Blows our minds
It's up to humans to brave on with experimentation
Move forth the species by using our imagination."

I guess that's what they call synchronicity. It makes sense— 311's music and I are in tune with one another, and have been for some time now. I just didn't know it was at the point where they are subliminally controlling my writings through song. I'll have to keep that in mind. :)

I'm going to talk politics tomorrow, and I'm writing this to remind me to do just that. So...

Tomorrow: Why it is none of our business what businesspeople do with their business.