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31/07/2025

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The Obama Presidential Library, under construction in Chicago, looks like a… (Fill in the blank.)

I think it looks like a totalitarian command center dropped straight out of 1984.

You can’t make this up. This hulking, gray monolith doesn’t look like a tribute to “hope and change.” It looks like the Ministry of Truth from a failed Marxist state. Cold. Ominous. Bureaucratic. The perfect shrine to eight years of weaponized government, broken promises, and elite arrogance.

This isn’t a library. It’s a fortress. And the symbolism couldn’t be clearer.

Because let’s be honest: the Obama years weren’t about empowering people… they were about expanding government, punishing dissent, and rewriting the rules to benefit the ruling class. From Benghazi to the IRS scandal, from spying on journalists to turning federal agencies into political tools, the legacy isn’t one of unity. It’s one of control.

And now that legacy is being immortalized in a concrete tomb that blocks out the sky.

Worse, this isn’t even a real presidential library. It’s not run by the National Archives. It won’t hold the original documents of the Obama administration. It’s a private propaganda palace masquerading as public history. The Obama Foundation gets full control of the narrative and of course, you still get the bill.

Meanwhile, the very Chicago neighborhoods this behemoth is invading largely black, working-class communities have been raising red flags for years. They’ve been steamrolled. Just like millions of Americans were steamrolled by the policies and politics of the Obama era.

This building doesn’t inspire. It intimidates. It doesn’t reflect the American spirit. It reflects the progressive ruling class’s obsession with legacy, control, and cementing their version of history—no matter what it cost the country.

Want to see the difference? Go visit the Reagan Library. You’ll find sunlight, freedom, and a quiet reverence for the country he loved. This? This is the bunker of a man who lectured America while building walls of bureaucracy around himself.

If this is what Obama calls a “temple of democracy,” it’s fitting, because it looks like a place where free speech goes to die.

31/01/2025

Stanford's breakthroughs in waveguides and holograms have brought wearables closer to commercial reality. They are smaller and lighter, making them usable. Yet, they have sharper and richer digital content in the field of view. Artificial intelligence has expanded use cases for wearables. A drop in their cost will propel their market growth.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/dawn-wearables-20-what-holdup-kishore-jettohanandani-mba-ma-mphil--ur7ae

Intelligence - AI

20/01/2025

The age of drone warfare has arrived. The expensive heavy military equipment widely used up until the beginning of the Ukraine/Russia war is getting battered by drones. New tactics for warfare have emerged with drone swarms that can be controlled remotely, and flocks of them adapt dynamically in a Guerrilla warfare warfare mode.

Industrial-scale Internet of Things (IoT) captures vast volumes of data from machines, people, sensors, and devices. The aggregated data, processed by AI algorithms, lays the groundwork for timely responses to events, operational efficiencies, business agility, and transformative business models.

20/01/2025

Drone swarms are going mainstream. Heavy equipment of the traditional military have become easy targets for agile, often non-state, adversaries using drones. Targeted warfare has become the norm. The theaters of war generated reams of data. IoT aggregates the data. AI analyzes the need to pinpoint threats and the need for reinforcements to deter threats. Battle tactics are controlled remotely by humans perched in conventional equipment. It is much like Star Wars in real life.

Industrial-scale Internet of Things (IoT) captures vast volumes of data from machines, people, sensors, and devices. The aggregated data, processed by AI algorithms, lays the groundwork for timely responses to events, operational efficiencies, business agility, and transformative business models.

19/01/2025

The humdrum business of supply chains is getting a fundamental technology makeover. Covid-19 broke the old model. Supply chains repeatedly broke as they became unmanageable with recurring schedule changes, delivery delays caused by lockdowns, and workers' absences. Post-Covid supply chains have become complex labyrinths with multiple sources of supply at the local, regional, and global levels. Geo-political conflicts and several theaters of war have made them unmanageable. An array of technologies--the Internet of Things, Digital Twins, AI, and networking with low-orbit satellites and mesh networks are helping to solve problems of visibility, rapid decision-making, and agility to solve the chronic state of disruptions. Supply chain managers gather real-time data end-to-end to gain visibility. They visualize and simulate data on digital twins to evaluate decision options, collaborate with vendors and partners in any corner of the supply chain with low-orbit satellites, and direct data flows with ad hoc networks to databases.

4PL supply chain companies have added a management layer to 3PL logistics companies to provide services that help to achieve predictable ETAs.

We have produced a video to tell the story of how the recent evolution of supply chains.

Please let us know your impressions.

13/11/2024

Quantum is poised to have a far-reaching impact on information technologies across-the-board. Quantum has gone largely unnoticed by Technorati because its incipient commercialization has, so far, impacted very few use cases. Cyber-security is one, and the healthcare sector is another. Quantum computing will complement classical computing with capabilities to solve complex problems, as we will discuss in another posting. Quantum sensing brings atomic-level detail to healthcare imaging, especially brain imaging, potentially facilitating early detection. Quantum networking is the third element that awaits scalable and error-free solutions.

We interviewed Nardo Manaloto, Managing Partner at Qubit’s Ventures, to learn about the progress in the commercialization of quantum science for the healthcare sector.

https://medium.com//mastering-complexity-consummating-the-marriage-of-quantum-technologies-and-healthcare-78ccae08b858

An interview of future-maker Nardo Manaloto by Kishore Jethanandani