Some mornings, it is hard to get going. I didn’t sleep much or well last night. I got home late and had too much coffee to keep me awake while driving the fourteen hours from Utah. So, forgive me if all I saw in my morning read is Goggle, Google, and more Google.
- Google Glass, the company’s Internet-connected glasses, will soon have seven new apps, including breaking news alerts from CNN, fashion features from Elle, Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook posts and reminder notes from Evernote.
- Developers at eBay Inc are working on potential applications for Google Inc’s Glass project, opening up the possibility that shopping and broader commercial activities might be conducted through the wearable technology.
I don’t know about this Google Glass. The whole idea seems weird, over the top, and potentially dangerous. Sure, as a game, it might be fun, but as an everyday device? Can we be serious with our innovative abilities? Does everything have to be about selling the next fad? What the heck is the point in walking around with a computer in your face, literally?
See that? I miss a bit of sleep and I become a cranky old man, afraid of the now. Wait a minute! Now is the now, and as I think about it, I am not afraid – I just think wearing a computer on your face is, well, silly. Now, when I was a kid … we walked to school both ways uphill, with no shoes … in the snow …
- Quantum computing took a giant leap forward on the world stage today as NASA and Google, in partnership with a consortium of universities, launched an initiative to investigate how the technology might lead to breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.
- The Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab [QAIL] will use the most advanced commercially available quantum computer, the D-Wave Two.
Okay, the above is a bit of the now I can handle and it does show we can be serious with our innovative abilities. Quantum computers are coming, even if the computer referenced above is arguably a “quantum computer.” Nevertheless, the D-Wave Two has tested out as the fastest computer on the planet, well, the fastest we non-military and non-spy people know about anyway.
I am waking up a bit. I reread my rant above. Now, that is cranky. The fact is that many cool things have come about from selling the latest fad – heck, cars were fads at one point. So let the fad begin, as long as Google keeps on putting its money and technical gravitas into projects such as the QAIL. My only question is: Aside from buying the most expensive stock on the planet, is there any way to make money from either the fad or the serious research?
Speaking of making money … It appears the market has taken the recent WSJ article about the Fed and digested it.
- European shares lifted off lows on Friday while the dollar held near a 10-month high against a basket of currencies as investors considered the prospect the Federal Reserve might begin easing off on asset buying.
The planted speculation has had the opposite effect on gold, that over-priced, anachronistic supposed safe haven from inflation metal. I like to see the price keep dropping, as it means more money available to keep the market rally going.
- Gold fell for a seventh straight session, its longest losing streak in four years, driven by speculation the Fed may soon ease its asset-purchase program to boost the economy.
Time for me to catch up on my sleep … I am so cranky.
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