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Future of Technology! What's Next?

12-20-11
Michael Seidman

Well, this all started yesterday when I sent my mother a text message and my iPhone changed a properly spelled word that I hardly use 'gum', a fine word, I just don't use it while texting, into 'gym' a word I use with great frequency. Perhaps one of the words that I use the most, not on the same level as "Hi, Me, You, Yes, No" etc... but definitely amongst the most commonly used words in my texting vocabulary.

So what does it mean when my cellphone, or smart phone I guess I should say, determines that I actually did want to use the word that it suggested instead of the word I typed?

Anyways, that gets me to thinking about what's next, I mean we've come pretty far pretty quickly as far as consumer based technology is concerned, but I would like to see it taken to the next level.

Futuristic Volkswagen looks the part

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Now futuristic cars are one thing, and with enough training in computer design, I'm sure most people could fabricate an image of their ideal future car, but what about something much bigger, say when population density becomes an issue... shouldn't be too far in the future.

Floating cities off the coast may one day be needed.

( Click the picture for the story )

If you follow the above picture and scroll down a little, there's a ~4:00 video about the plan that is actually being set into motion to create floating cities in the equatorial ocean. I won't give it all away.

Or you could skip right to the article, Shimizu Corp and friends plans to build one, I hope I get to take a vacation there one day. If I have to wait till 2030 I guess I have to... but that's only 18 years from now!Smiling thumbs up guy

Gosh... If I could just go back in time and spell gym properly none of this would ever have happened.

I wonder if anyone is working on anything?


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Just Saying Hello (First Blog Post Ever!) New Orleans Referendum

12-19-11
Michael Seidman
Good Morning ActiveRain,
Welcome to my first official blog posting.
New Orleans is a funny place, we're very much on the cutting edge of plenty of noteworthy subjects. A few to consider as examples could be:
Delicious New Orleans MealStreet Musicians in the French QuarterMardi Gras revelers enjoying themselves
"Food" "Music" "Tourist Destinations"
Now at the same time, nobody is perfect right?
I love the city in which I was born and raised and now seek to start up my Real Estate business, but I can also understand how there might also be some negativity associated with the deep south.
Gentlemen with a large weaponElderly man with face in book surrounded by guardsTV picture with numerical figures on it
"Ignorant Folks/Racists" "Technology Experts" "Political Corruption"
Now of course everyone has their issues and again, nobody is perfect. But as I'm growing older I sense an increasingly large schism between those who would like to join the 21st century where accountability and progress are some of the main goals, and those who truly don't care.
As everyone is entitled to their opinion assuming it doesn't infringe on the civil rights of another, I will maintain defending their right to say whatever they want to say and do whatever they want to do while of course disagreeing with the decision itself.
A little more perspective:
If you went to Commander's Place between August of 2007 and February of 2011, there is a decent chance that I was there to say "Good morning/afternoon/evening" as you were passing me on the way in, and "Thanks, have a great night" or "Thanks Ya'll, come on back now" as you were leaving. Now if you were the guest of a banquet at Commander's in that time, there's a definitive possibility that I was amongst the individuals taking care of your party ensuring the smooth nature of all things service related.
Now with that said, in my 3 years and 8 months as a Front Waiter at the world renown Commander's Palace I lost track of how many times I would hear some charming couple from the northeast gush at me about how they felt warm and genuinely cared for during their stay in our fair city.
"It's not just the service people" They would tell me. "We're fascinated by how many people have made eye contact and just said hello on the street with a smile on their face."

As you'll be able to see in the above linked article from the Wall Street Journal's Market Watch, it's not all just fantasy based optimism, we now have even more proof that New Orleans is bouncing back in a way that perhaps was unexpected to some...
Just not us.
Have a great week everyone!
~Michael
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