Silicon Odyssey: Tracing the Microchip Revolutionary Path – Part 2

April 03, 2024 |John Vidas
To The Future It’s 1999, the new, disruptive, and charged technological era of the internet, an era where you could easily raise money for the most bizarre technology scheme, --- someone told you that Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft were going to...
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Silicon Odyssey: Tracing the Microchip Revolutionary Path

March 21, 2024 |John Vidas
The force of gravity is a constant presence that shapes every moment of our existence, grounding us to the earth, yet it’s so fundamental to our daily experience that we scarcely give it a second thought. Equally, there is a human development, a force...
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Voice of Deception: Understanding and Avoiding AI-Based Phone Scams

January 22, 2024 |John Vidas
Seattle based Hiya, a company specializing in detecting spam phone calls tells us, “The average Canadian receives up to 4-5 spam calls per month”. I receive more of these scam calls in a week. Hiya’s Jonathan Nelson warns --- “Voice cloning technology...
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What Inflation Does To Your Buying Power

September 21, 2023 |John Vidas
“If you were born in 1776 and your parents invested that $1 towards your future, at an annual rate of inflation annually, based on the that $1 value in 1776, your survivors to August 2023, would have the equivalent in purchasing power to about $35.14...
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Part 2 --- AI’s ability to Fake Real News and Events

June 28, 2023 |John Vidas
“Late last year two videos were released by Wolf News and distributed by pro-China bot accounts on Facebook and Twitter. Using ‘deepfake’ video technology to create fictitious news anchors orchestrated as part of a state-aligned information campaign promoting...
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AI’s ability to fake Real News and Events – What can we do about it?

June 22, 2023 |John Vidas
There are periods in our history that major seminal events are like a personal earthquake dramatically impacting and changing our lives. The Industrial Revolution made great strides in transportation increasing wealth, the production of goods and the...
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Should We Be Concerned With the Increasing Impact of Artificial Intelligence?

February 22, 2023 |John Vidas
“It’s not artificial intelligence I’m worried about, it’s human stupidity.” --- Neil Jacobstein, Chairs the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at Singularity University on the NASA Research Park campus in Mountain View, California. Billionaire...
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What is the True Meaning of Christmas?

December 16, 2022 |John Vidas
We will gather together this Christmas, with family and friends, sharing a traditional dinner, exchanging presents, ---- in the joy of spending time with people we love and enjoy being with. The true meaning of Christmas is ---“Celebration of Life, the...
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Volatility and the Forces Moving Markets

November 07, 2022 |John Vidas
“The essence of risk management lies in maximizing the areas where we have some control over the outcome while minimizing the areas where we have absolutely no control over the outcome and the linkage between effect and cause is hidden from us.” ………....
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Why is Nuclear Power such as dirty word?

September 15, 2022 |John Vidas
“Transition to fossil fuels to produce heat, thermal electricity and kinetic energy began in England during the 16th century. It took hold in Europe and North America only after 1800, and in most of Asia only after 1950. This transition has been accompanied...
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