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Technology, Good Intentions And The Road To Hell

May 04, 2020
by Caroline Miller
Apple, coronavirus, Dr. Fauci, Edward Snowden, Google+, NSA, program to track social contacts, Veena Dubel, Vice News
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Thanks to hackers who spirited my personal information into the dark web, I’m getting weird emails. Some of the senders write revealing details about me as if we’ve known each other for years. “Delete that stuff,” my hardware guru advised. “They’re crooks pretending to kno
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New Frontiers And Old Habits

March 04, 2020
by Caroline Miller
AI, Google+, lethal bacteria, new language in Google users' contract, terms of privacy
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My love-hate relationship with technology continues.  Recently, I rejoiced over an announcement that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has invented some fascinating methods to conquer lethal bacteria.  Hurrah! New frontiers!  New ways to arrest illnesses without debilitating chemical tr
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The Military-Industrial-Technological Complex

August 12, 2019
by Caroline Miller
cloud computing, data collection, drones, Dwight Eisenhauer, Edward Snowden, Eric Schmidt, Google+, Jacob Silver, Military-Industrial complex, NSA, Tech giants and military, Tech's Military Dilemma, tech/military complex
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In 1961, in his farewell address to the nation as our 34th President, Dwight Eisenhower warned that “we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.” (Click)  His words are often repeated, a reminder
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Giants Of The Earth

August 10, 2017
by Caroline Miller
Facebook, Google+, How About a Bit More Room for Competition?, monopolies in tech industry, Paula Dwyer, robots
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On several occasions, I’ve blogged about technological advances in robotics and how androids could disrupt our society. What I hadn’t considered was the way large tech companies could become a threat in themselves.  I’m talking about monopolies.  Not the traditional kind, like
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You Can Talk But Fat Cats Are Indifferent

June 15, 2017
by Caroline Miller
corporate contracts, data driven economy, Erin Griffith, Facebook, Google+, Ingrham's publishing company, Ingrham's publishingcompany, pulishing, We Changed the World! OOPS., why social media is free to users
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Ingrham’s, a large publishing and distribution company for  writers’ works, sent me an email yesterday.  They were raising rates for their services.  The attachment was a long, single spaced document with several pages of contract changes.  I am careful about material like thi
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The Global Savings Glut And Privitization

June 16, 2016
by Caroline Miller
asset-light industry, Ben Bernanke, Bob Dylan, Dell, Dodd-Frank, Facebook, Geoff Colvin, Google+, Private Desires, Safeway, Sarbanes-Oxley, Uber
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As I wrote in an earlier blog, (Blog 5/26/16) the world is awash in personal savings accounts, what Ben Bernanke calls a “global savings glut.” (“Private Desires, by Geoff Colvin, Fortune, June, 2016, pg. 54.)  In a recent essay, Geoff Colvin points out this sea of cash is chan
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Placing The Right Bet

January 12, 2015
by Caroline Miller
Adam Lashinsky, Amazon, Beth Kowitt, Google+, Jeff Bezos, justifying CEO salaries, Larry Page, McDonalds
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A friend visited the other day and as she settled down with a cup of tea, she peered round the room, admiring my new apartment which is larger than my last.  I’m probably one of the few retired people who has upsized her space rather than downsized.  My friend must have wondered h
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Wake Up Call For The Common Man

June 24, 2014
by Caroline Miller
David Sirota, George Carlin, Google+, Koch brothers, Luke Harding, The Snowden Files, Yahoo
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George Carlin
One defense people make for big government is that it serves as a counterweight to big business.  Unfortunately, the last tax-payer bailout of the automobile and bank industries gives little support to that argument.  What’s more, recent revelations in Luke Harding’s new book, T
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Eyes On The Prize

February 18, 2014
by Caroline Miller
Electronics: A glimpse of what’s coming next, Google+, Juan Carol Peres, PCworld.com
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cartoon about electronic gadgets
I have seen the future and it’s scary. Not only is NSA monitoring us but so are electronic gadgets. If we let them, they’ll control our lives, telling us it’s time for our valium, nagging us to exercise more or alerting us to some advertising special we might have missed. (“El
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