Our changing world

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WHATsUP with Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, the Blockchain, Artificial intelligence machine learning, robots, Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Siri, and so much more, does it make your brain go sort of crazy?

     1.  Some thoughts on money

"Is the end of money, as we know it near. Whether fiat currencies go on the blockchain, or dominant apps become the payment gateways like on the New China internet, or that biometrics like facial recognition is the universal payments, we know many of our old ideas like money and how we use it, will change maybe dramatically." 
Quote Michael K. Spencer
                                              
  2.More on privacy
We’ve welcomed smart speakers into our homes with the kind of enthusiasm you don’t normally see around always-on listening devices, because from the very beginning, Amazon stressed that Alexa wasn’t snooping on your conversations, and the data wasn’t being used for anything nefarious. While that might be true most of the time, every rule has an exception, as a family in Portland recently learned.

The woman, whose first name is Danielle, told KIRO7 News she received a phone call two weeks ago. “Unplug your Alexa devices right now,” the person on the other end of the line said. “You’re being hacked.” The caller turned out to be an employee of her husband, who had been receiving recordings of what was said in the house without her permission. But she wasn’t hacked — it was a bug with their Amazon Echos, which they had in every room. 

See more original version of this article on BGR.com

3. Are they coming from outer space? 

 The robots of course; just imagine you bought one of those cool robot vacuums, and as it scurries around it photographs the inside of your home?

Or maybe it could be your job? 

New McDonald’s In Phoenix Run Entirely By Robots

Phoenix, AZ — After seeing a decline in earnings for the first time in nine years, McDonald’s plans to do something no other restaurant of its kind has ever done before; open a store run entirely by robots.

4. Change is coming whether we like it or not?

    In the last 100 or so or years, almost everything has changed, pony express to US Mail
Bell telephone to iPhone

Horses to the horseless carriage


small imported cars to part electric to self-driving uberto self-driving electric trucks.

5. Are you concerned?
   I am, but for you; you see at 76 the biggest change for me is a box! Friends I blog here because what happened in the past is gone and you must prepare for the next coming years.

With everything that has changed; the power of the human voice has not. 


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