Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #4— The Butterfly Effect
Ever have a day when everything went wrong? You predicted you would have a normal day, but your alarm clock didn’t ring. Already running late, you couldn’t find your briefcase or backpack. Staggering out the door, your car won’t start. Later, you find out you missed a surprise meeting or maybe a quiz. It’s not you, it’s the whole prediction game… #1 – Observer effect; #2 – Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle; #3 – Quantum tunneling (last time); #4 – Butterfly effect (this time); #5 – External perturbations (next time); #6 – Why care? Existentialism; #7 -Why care? Time value of money

Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #3— Quantum Tunneling
Ever have a day when everything went wrong? Say you predicted you would have a normal day. But your alarm clock didn’t ring. Already running late, you couldn’t find your backpack (or whatever you use). Finally you stagger out the door, but your car won’t start. Later, you find out you missed a surprise quiz (or whatever). It’s not you, it’s the whole prediction game… #1 - observer effect; #2 - the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (last time); #3 - quantum tunneling (this time); #4 - butterfly effect (next time); #5 - external perturbations; #6 - why car

Chasing the Future: spoil sports of the prediction game #2 — the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
Ever have a day when everything went wrong? Say you predicted you would have a normal day. But your alarm clock didn’t ring. Already running late, you couldn’t find your backpack (or whatever you use). Finally you stagger out the door, but your car won’t start. Later, you find out you missed a surprise quiz. It’s not you, it’s the whole prediction game… #1 - observer effect (last time); #2 - the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle (this time); #3 - quantum tunneling (next time); #4 - butterfly effect; #5 - external perturbations; #6 - why care? Existentialism; #7 -Why care? Time value of money —————â

Productive Nanosystems and the 2009 Financial Meltdown
Introduction At a fundamental level, real wealth is the ability to fulfill human needs and desires. These ephemeral motivators are responsible for the creation of money, bank ledgers, and financial instruments that drive the world—caveat the fact that the monetary system can’t buy us love (and a few other necessities). Technologies have always provided us with tools that enable us to fulfill more needs and desires for more people with less effort. The exponential nanomanufacturing capabilities of Productive Nanosystems will simply enable us to do it better. Much better. Productive Nanosystems The National Nanotechnology Initiative defines nanotechnolog

Chasing the future: spoil sports of the prediction game #1 — the observer effect
Ever have a day when everything went wrong? Say you predicted you would have a normal day. But your alarm clock didn’t ring. Already running late, you couldn’t find your backpack (or whatever you use). Finally you stagger out the door, but your car won’t start. Later, you find out you missed a surprise quiz. It’s not you, it’s the whole prediction game… #1 - observer effect; #2 - Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle; #3 - quantum tunneling; #4 - butterfly effect; #5 - external perturbations; #6 - why care? Existentialism; #7 -Why care? Time value of money —————————&#