2023 ...

The future beckons ...

Yours truly took this shot a few years ago in NYC. Image processed it a bit as it resonates, indirectly, to Steely Dan's Black Cow as 3AM comes to mind as does this pix, which conjures up prognostications regarding 2023 where guesstimates lurk as no one can predict the future as there is no certitude ... ever.

• The obvious, AI is everywhere, taking over all disciplines requiring thought.
• The lack of education intensifies in the land of the brave and home of the free. Qanon anyone?
• The art of cursive slowly goes away as does a significant part of language.
• Texting, the 21st-century version of New Speak, is the new normal.
• Analog clocks become the great mystery to the young.
• The word "clock" itself becomes the great mystery to the young as well.
• Stick shift cars, the perfect anti-theft device, goes prime time.
• The word "assume" apples, especially when voicing the term "I am not a scientist" when questioning the notion of climate change or the "radical" concept of a spherical earth.
• Global Warming, the catastrophe that keeps on giving, continues unabated.
• Overshoot is now the operative term as we're running out of earth needed to make evermore stuff.
• The temperature outside in CT is now 50. Yesterday it was 60 plus.
• Physicists are getting closer to unifying relativity to quantum.
• The GOP-controlled house will be a shit show for the ages.
• With luck, we'll avoid WWIII vis a vis Russia and Ukraine, the war that keeps on giving to the MIC.
• Camus is right, reality's absurd, what's meaningful to you ... matters. 
• Creativity is all about rhythm and connects in the process of problem-solving. The size of the problem solved dictates the importance of the creative act in question.
• We will never know the full extent of reality... Heisenberg, Godel + Quantum Mechanics. 
• Stay hungry, stay foolish. - Stewart Brand
• What is history going to do next? - Bert Webbe
• Happy New Year! :)