futurist

When I close my eyes and picture the future, this is what I see.

JPL/ Nasa Mars Lander

NASA with the assistance of JPL has landed another lander on Mars. The main mission is to look for frozen water over the next three months.

here's the main page: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Townhome for sale in Columbia, Maryland!

John and Melanie are growing out of their house! Check out this great townhome in an established neighborhood in Columbia, Maryland. Townhome for Sale in Columbia, Maryland. MLS#: HW6770203 Or stop by and check it out for yourself at 9529 Quarry Bridge Court, Columbia, MD 21046.

Maintenance Mastery

I'm creating a new site called Maintenance Mastery, http://maintenancemastery.wordpress.com Where I'll be sharing tips, tricks, and tools for maintenance technicians.

I'm hoping that I've done it right this time, and I've put down a bunch of stuff down in a moleskine so that I have material in advance. I'll get a few posts up, and then I'll start promoting the heck out of it.

I've started out in wordpress- and if it takes off, I'll dot-com it.

technorati

I have joined the ranks of the technorati. Now I can check to see just how irrelevant my rants are, and how many people aren't reading me!!

release the spiders...
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Seeing the future

I want to be an engineerpoetphilosopherfuturist. I know how to do the first three things, but what does it take to become a futurist? Can you be optimistic about the advance of tech, but pessimistic about what we'll do with it?

futurist dot com has a list of core beliefs that I find fascinating. I agree with most of it, so does that make me a futurist? Maybe I have to join first.

I saw Iron man this past weekend, and it got me thinking (again). Why we don't have hovercars and jet packs yet? We have all this amazing communications crapola- but what I consider the REAL future- the cool applicable stuff hasn't really arrived yet.

We still get in our "cars" powered by 100 year old technology, and drive them on our "roads" paved with a sumbstance we started using over 10k years ago to our post WW2 era inspired "jobs" where we all pretty much do normal run-of-the-mill outmoded outdated kinds of stuff.

I realize that progress is measured in micro-improvements most of the time, but sometimes I'd really like to just jump on my skybike and go take a ride an orbit tether to a space station and go for a two week vacation on the moon like they promised me I would be doing by the year 2000 when I was in elementary school.

If thinking that modern engineering and tech isn't moving fast enough makes me a futurist, then count me in.