You Googled Me?:  crown princess Victoria Sweden military

There’s suddenly been a number of people looking for information about Princess Victoria and her military training in the last week.  I’d posted about her required training as a Swedish royal  in January.  Her stint in boot camp was to start on 03-MAR-03 and last three weeks, followed by studies in conflict resolution in Washington DC.

Are we hoping she can help us out in conflict resolution?  I guess there’s not much she could hurt!

As a Yale grad, she might have special influence dealing with President Bush.

Maybe we should call her and have a chat…

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The Future is Very, Very Small

This makes me happy, knowing that kids are being introduced to the cutting edge of technology at an early age.  What will they come up with in the way of new products?  Will we get to them early enough to be able to catch them at their most uninhibited state of creativity?  Can we teach them to use ethics now, while beginning their exploration of the future?

I’m crazy about nanotechnology.  I submitted a few ideas to a Fortune 100 company’s ideation team on this stuff.  Utterly fantastic how this will change our future.  It will do for us what industrialization and computerization did for our society.

Imagine this simple application: a piece of paper, run through a printer or copier, has not one but multiple messages which can display on the paper upon command.  Yeah, nano-ink, coming to you just about any time now.  It’s been in development for a few years.

Or medicines, comprised of bucky-balls – tiny “machines” which once injected into the blood stream will seek out and attack a tumor or cancer.  Also under development.

Awesome stuff, yes?

Scary, too.  Imagine the same injected nano-machine, attacking human beings from the inside out.  Imagine if these nano-machines could self-replicate, like viruses.

Hence my comment about teaching ethics in concert with introducing this enormously potent technology.

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