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"And I am very much a skeptic in regards to technology being able to save us from killing ourselves as a species." A recent email exchange with a new friend contained the previous quote from my friend. It inspired me to finally write out what I'd been saying in bits and pieces to people on Facebook for quite some time. As for the question, will technology be our saving grace? I am still somewhat ambivalent about it myself, the current time of rapid developments in genetics and biology have me terrified and amazed. Terrified because as a software and hardware engineer I am well aware of the history of change that attended certain technological developments in both areas in the past and how those changes revolutionized human productivity in two phases. The first was the invention of the semiconductor transistor in 1947 by Shockley and Bardeen. The second was the invention of the integrated circuit and soon after photo-lithography that led to the astounding miniaturization o...

I was so excited about finally finishing the last of my testing I decided to stay up to go over the todo list I showed before , and make sure that every task was addressed in code. As I mentioned in a previous post , often the actual implementation will deviate from the task items on the todo list which are written on the fly as I am thinking about what needs to be done to address a given problem. I discovered a few items from the list that were obsoleted since I found more efficient ways of doing them in the actual code, always a good thing to find that you don't have as much work to do as you first thought. After I finished checking all the items off, I proceeded to perform one of the coolest parts of software design to me, if only because it is some what mysterious (it being a type of programming I have yet to do) and that is , build software. I've been using a application distribution builder I found after a few well placed google queries called Advanced Installer , this ...