{"id":14073,"date":"2011-02-10T14:11:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14073"},"modified":"2011-02-10T14:12:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:12:34","slug":"good-news-bad-news-good-news-and-more-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14073\/good-news-bad-news-good-news-and-more-good-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Good news, bad news, good news and more good news…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s some good news: Time<\/em> magazine has discovered the Singularity<\/a>. It’s a fan-boy article, but it covers a lot of interesting ground, anyway. What’s missing? Sim, massively large databases, signal processing, lots of cool stuff. The article devotes a lot of attention to Ray Kurzweil’s research on exponential curves in individual disciplines, but misses the big picture: The overall rate of change is not exponential but logarithmic<\/em>.<\/a> I say all the time, “They can’t enslave us if they can’t catch us.” We are fast approaching the day when it will no longer be possible even to attempt to enslave human intelligence.<\/p>\n

Here’s some bad news: The current president of the National Association of Realtors is either a clueless dupe or a knowing villain<\/a> — just like all the other grand poobahs of the NAR. I’ve invited him to come talk to us. Don’t hold your breath waiting for him to show up.<\/p>\n

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Here’s some good news from my house: I resumed lifting weights on Monday, two months after I cracked up my elbow<\/a>. I could tell from other activity that I hadn’t lost much in strength, so I left the plates where I had had them. On Monday, I did ten repetitions of ten exercises. Fifteen reps on Tuesday, 20 on Wednesday, then 30 today. Not much pain in my elbow, and less every day. I’m at full extension, and maybe 98% of full compression. The only real pain is in the tendons of my left thumb — the guitar tendons. In a week, I’ll be back to 50 reps of each exercise, which is where I was before I fell.<\/p>\n

And here’s the best news I saw today: The iPad 2 is coming soon, and the iPad 3 may not be far behind<\/a>. I’m annoyed that the Verizon deal wasn’t for Verizon’s pretend 4g network, and I’m annoyed that there is no true 4g wireless service in Phoenix yet. But, as soon as I can afford to, I’m going to move all of my email to an iPad. I simply cannot be away from my email for hours at a time, and I’m Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s some good news: Time magazine has discovered the Singularity. It’s a fan-boy article, but it covers a lot of interesting ground, anyway. What’s missing? Sim, massively large databases, signal processing, lots of cool stuff. The article devotes a lot of attention to Ray Kurzweil’s research on exponential curves in individual disciplines, but misses the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,212,29,379,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-egoism-in-action","7":"category-flourishing","8":"category-group-therapy","9":"category-innovation","10":"category-technology","12":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":611,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/611\/election-day-links-the-essence-of-liberty-now-is-out-running-those-who-would-enslave-us\/","url_meta":{"origin":14073,"position":0},"title":"Election Day Links: The essence of liberty, now, is out-running those who would enslave us . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 7, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I know a lot of people who don't vote. 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