End of the Aughts

I almost always have a graphic or two to illustrate a post because I am a designer who "draws a box" around ideas whether it be writing, building websites or just playing around with tech to do things like BRT. For this post, I'll forgo graphics and put up a fairly short and incomplete list of musings to sum up my feelings about this most unsettled decade.

• "W" - Words cannot describe besides nukeler
• Pop music - All image, no music save exceptions like U2 & Leonard Cohen
• US Bankruptcy - Brought to you by Rubin, Gramm, Summer & Geithner aided and abetted by the BA
  
• 9/11 - All too many unanswered questions
• Iraq - Wag the Dog writ large
• Afghanistan - It's Obama's disaster now
• Surveillance 24/7 - started by Bush, continued by Obama
• Orwell - More relevant then ever
  
• The Banksters - The real owners of the country
• Heath Care - Not
• Tech - The move toward nano marches on
• Tech - Like nature, tech has no morality
• Tech - Is advancing at double exponential rates
• AI - More pervasive then ever
• Robotics - Insects lead the way
• ALife - A slippery slope to be sure
• DNA Computing - Is becoming real
  
• The Super Bowl - The ads no longer rock
• The Web - The end of privacy, the rise of the Smart Planet
• The Internet - The last bastion of Freedom
  
• Science - Fiction yesterday, Fact today
• Smart People - Never have a problem saying I don't know
• Curiosity - Is the reason why creativity happens
• The Art of War - Is timeless
• Tao - Is also
• Genius - Is the ability to see relationships and act upon them
  
• Creativity - Applies to anything requiring thinking
  
• Global Warming - Game changer to the max
• Movies/Greatly edited - The best - Up, The worst - Battlefield Earth
• Books - Too many to talk about but The Possibility of an Island comes to mind
• Pro Sports - The land of the overpaid
• Politics - The world of the bought and paid for
• Democracy - The grand illusion of our times
• Peak Oil - A concept not understood but it will be, soon
• Hardware - The rise of Haptics is coming
• Light Rail - A notion Obama doesn't understand
• The Singularity - Beginning to take shape before our very eyes
• The Fed - A cartel protected by government
• Software - Getting better, getting cheaper
• The Cloud - Computing as appliance
• Open Source - Rules
• 3D Graphics - Avatar is just the beginning
• Physics - Stopping light is just the beginning
• Biology - Computation and immortality beckons
• Quantum Computing - The Matrix is just the beginning
• Humanity - Is not ready for this
• Earth - Doesn't need us
• Thermodynamics - Everything has a cost
• Information - "From It to Bit" - John Wheeler
• Many Worlds - Is a notion who's time has come
• Fractals - May be the TOE after all
  
• OLED - Fahrenheit 451 comes to mind if you ask me.
• The Media Merge - It's already here
• The Web - Is becoming sentient
  
• Obama - Change we can make believe in
• Passivity & Sloth - The mantra of the US citizen
  
• Creativity - Is within all of us if we have the courage to make it so
• Excellence - Requires sacrifice, something to be avoided at all costs when instant gratification isn't fast enough
• Experts - Anyone who says they are, aren't
  
• The Future - Guessing is permitted, predicting isn't
• Black Swans - Are everywhere
• Luck - Is a very big deal
• Chaos, Quantum Mechanics, Fractals & The Laws of Initial Conditions & Thermodynamics - Rule
• Humor - A defining trait of man
• Friendship - Without it, we are nothing
  
• 2010 - The second decade of the 21st century looms...and, Happy New Year! :)