H+AI: The Genius of Crowds and AI
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H+AI: The Genius of Crowds and AI

ByDel Phi

This site has now taken a dive into AI, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) in this case. AI Assistants are everywhere now, and proliferating. In search(ish) there is Google’s Gemini (formerly Bard); in Microsoft there’s Copilot which utilizes OpenAI’s technology. And, of course there OpenAI’s ChatGPT itself, with the open source version available to anyone who has the time and money to obtain data, pre-train, and implement their own GAI system — typically for a more…

The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario, Part 1

The EV Hurricane Disaster: a 1-sided scenario, Part 1

ByDel Phi

An unsigned, undated, email came circulating the web presenting a horror story about EVs: Everyone has electric cars, and they are all trying to flee the peninsula (let’s say South Florida) as a hurricane approaches. Cars are stuck in traffic with no place to go, and no place the recharge. Can’t run radios and air conditioning because that uses precious batteries. Kids and elderly suffering in sweltering heat. The obvious conclusion: we all need to…

Crypto Currency as Legal Tender in El Salvador, and more…

ByDel Phi

El Salvador will start accepting Bitcoin officially in all transactions on Sept 7. What does that mean for Bitcoin in general, and for El Salvador and other countries? Lots of questions

PREDICT a Pandemic: First Kill those Pesty Scientists
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PREDICT a Pandemic: First Kill those Pesty Scientists

ByDel Phi

Oh My God! Trumps administration completely stopped the PREDICT program that did USAID training and response world-wide for pandemics.  Since the Bird Flu of 2005 (H5N1), the US presidents (Bush II and Obama) have moved toward building a program to identify potential pandemics and to help countries (including the USA) deal with such an eventuality. Of course, the PREDICT program got to deal with several pandemic-type events including SARS, MERS, Ebola and even Zika (mosquito)….

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Scenarios that Jump Out At You

ByDel Phi

There are several scenarios that jump out at you. Hall and Knab (2012) outlined 11 or so items that were non-sustainable trends/practices that appeared to have compounding and accelerating forces. Those items get worse in a wicked bad way when they go unattended. Therefore, they are wonderful areas to generate scenarios. Here’s a few: US Debt deficit, US Trade deficit, the interest rate bomb, Life-style bomb, the compounding healthcare costs escalation bomb, the fossil fuel…