As a Technologist, I wonder if the problems in the Caribbean can be solved by technology. The short answer is yes. For this reason, it is my mandate in life to implement technical solutions to various facets of my life and hopefully, those around me can learn and adapt to the new paradigm that the region will have to adhere to.
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Can Distributed Decentralized Automonous Organizations function in the Caribbean ? Yes, it can and will. It’s just a matter of what scale and what functions the communities will want to implement these systems. There will be resistance. But this will only by those who are part of the increasing technology unemployed with signicant financial debt. My suggestion would be :
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We shall be Gods !!!
This is some cool shit…
The future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed.
—–William Gibson, SciFi Author
Today, I saw my mom’s world change. She had a video chat with her mother in the UK with Skype. Thanks to this tool, she will now be able to stay in touch with her sisters and mom’s mum’s at a level that would have been unthinkable 10 years ago. While she and her sisters were FB friends, this type of communication is asynchronous(timeline) and semi-synchronous (realtime chat) at best. In addition, my Grandma doesn’t have a FB account. So the idea that that my mom could see and talk with her mother was definitely a major step forward.
Now, many in the First World may say that this is a trivial task and that they have been there, done that. This is true. However, I think this is just an example of the quote mentioned above.
As more and more members of the Caribbean diaspora start embracing and implementing technology to solve local problems, the future won’t be the luxury of the technology elite, but in addition allow for my mom to strengthen her family ties.
p.s Auntie Suset…. love the hair !!!
One of my flaws is that I tend to keep my ideas secret, in the strange notion that only I can pull them of and to share them will negate the future opportunities for fame and fortune. I won’t get into the excuses that stopped me from sharing what gifts, ideas and dreams that I have been brought here to share. The only thing to know is that 2015 and forward is when I will “release the Kraken” !
Sci-fi today is Science tomorrow….
Since the Iron Man arc reactor is a fictitious device, and it has no official scientific explanation in the Iron Man canon that I’m aware of, we might as well something up. Now, I’m mixing real science and fake science here. So physics nerds and comic-book nerds: Deal with it.
This highlights another step in computing. The next step is video. Sounds like Raconteur from Kill Decision
With over 10 years of experience as an IT professional who moves around, I have had my share of tools to allow me to increase my productivity. Here is a snapshot of what I use now. And like everything in my field, it changes.
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