Virtual Reality VR has been with us since 1968 (some would say a form of it was invented in 1838). The flight simulation business was all over in in the early and mid 1970s. By the 1990s, companies like Nintendo were using the early versions of the technology for gaming. By 2012 we had Google Glass and Oculus Rift out there vying for consumers adoption, but the market was still very small. By 2019 there…
The Vortex There are certain places in our lives, which we pass through regularly and which have special meaning to us. For me, one such place is the area between Las Vegas and Torrey, Utah. The highlights of that region go from Mesquite Nevada to the Virgin Valley Gorge, which is actually a part of Arizona, St. George, Utah, Zion National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, Cedar Breaks and the entire area surrounding Torrey, with…
The Heat is On The high today on our hilltop is projected to be 96 degrees. Our entire day yesterday was spent driving through triple-digit temperatures. It was 97 in Salt Lake City at the base of the Wasatch Mountains. It was 113 in Las Vegas as we drove through, needing to detour onto Las Vegas Boulevard for five miles due to replacing of Rt. 15, and it was even 108 degrees as we went…
Approaching Singularity Recently I was sent a book by a colleague who was surprised that I had not read Ray Kurzweil and his two books called The Singularity is Near and the more recent The Singularity is Nearer. Kurzweil is both an inventor and a futurist who has become largely acclaimed as the guru of AI prognostication. The term “singularity” is taken from math and physics and means that special point in a mathematical function…
It’s All Greek to Me We are wrapping up our western summer roadtrip today, heading home on a long stretch of road from Salt Lake City to our hilltop, 718 miles. I like driving out west and all I need is a good book to listen to from Audible and I can go for miles and miles. We are leaving from the home of our dear, dear friends Deb and Melissa, who have a lovely…
The Sun in My Eyes One of the typical situations that we in the services business have to learn to deal with here on the west coast is that the world of business more often than not operates on the east coast time zone. That seems to be the case whether you are positioned, like me, to the west of there, or if you are east of there, as in Europe. Obviously, I am three…
Danger, Will Robinson In 1965, the Robinson family blasted off into space and into the American psyche. The choice of name Robinson was not random or accidental. The name comes from an 1812 novel by Johann David Wyss, a Swiss novelist who wrote The Swiss Family Robinson, about a family emigrating to Australia that gets lost somewhere on a desert island in the South Pacific. In 1960, the story was adapted into a movie staring…
The Art of Juggling We all have to juggle at one time or another, but I think it is safe to say that the fine art of juggling is usually honed in the service of business. Sometimes we are forced to juggle work and home life and God knows I’ve had my share of that, with work winning more times than I care to admit. These days, that particular juggling act is much easier since…
Mountain Time Yesterday we crossed out of Utah and after a quick stop at Four Corners, adding New Mexico to the trip’s list of states covered (bringing it now to six states), we passed into the Rocky Mountain State of Colorado. I’ve just spent my second night at altitude (6,600 feet here in Durango) and while I got a slightly better night’s sleep, I can still feel the affects of the lower oxygen levels just…
The Holding Pen of Life In a recent British movie I watched, the narrator sets up the plot about a man in later life (Jim Broadbent…Bridget Jone’s dear old dad) who will be facing a crisis of his legacy. The comment is a made about the man when he was young and in school that he and his fellows felt as though they were in a holding pen. He goes on by saying that he…