Pandoran Information Systems

A quick thought about Avatar…

Wasn’t the evil corporation in Avatar missing a huge potential profit center by ignoring the ways in which the Nav’i uploaded and downloaded information thru their network of trees?

We’re essentially talking about organic computers, aren’t we. The information techmology possibilities are staggering, to say the least. It makes my [...]

The Shifting Brass Ring

One of the more interesting sites in my commute to work everyday from the suburbs to downtown Pittsburgh is passing through Wilkinsburg. Like other parts of Pittsburgh, it is a study in contrasts. There are parts of it that are certainly depressed; the store-fronts are rundown or closed. The houses are boarded up and dilapidated. [...]