Is Memory Obsolete? Or is this a crisis of National Memory Failure?

Google recently announced that in three years time the desktop will be obsolete. Perhaps we are just steps away from all memory stored outside of the Internet being obsolete? Why can’t I just plug my brain into the Internet and skip all of this gadgetry nonsense anyway?

We haven’t figured out how to do that yet, (though scientist are working on it) and until then we are plugged in through our technical interfaces like, laptops, iPhones and Palm’s etc…

In fact, we are so plugged in, that our brains are rewiring in very mysterious ways.

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I Want Money Part II – Local Currencies

As Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan hand out lucrative bonuses worth millions there are men, woman and children living on the streets who have to beg for a dollar. The fact that one man is hailed as a leader because he has more greenbacks and the other derided as a failure because he has none, speaks to me as evidence that our monetary system and the values that give it power, is where the true failure lies. I don’t think we need “financial experts” to sniff out when something is in need of fixing, and local currencies might just be the answer.
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