I set of to work this
morning as usual. I was half way to Canterbury when I realised that
I'd left my mobile phone behind. I rarely use the thing during the
average work day, and maybe get an occasional text message coming in.
But I've got used to the feel of the thing in my breast pocket, and I
felt quite lost without it today.
Meanwhile in orbit
Chinese astronauts have docked
their spaceship with the makings of what will eventually be their
own space station. One can't help but wonder why they didn't save a
few quid and throw in their lot with the rest of the world on the
ISS. Did they really need to set up a rival space station? Well - of
course they did. National prestige is at stake. The Americans and
Russians played that game forty years ago until they realised how
much it cost. I wonder how long it will be before the Chinese realise
the same. And, bearing in mind human nature, which country will then
take over from the Chinese to go it alone at taking over the cosmos.
Mind you, it's not all
beer and skittles on the ISS. It would seem that the international
contingents there are planning to get competitive and join
in with the forthcoming Olympics. That should be interesting.
Also on a futuristic
theme, for many years the pundits have been banging the drum about
catastrophic global overpopulation. With a finite load of resources
and an ever increasing human population, something's got to give at
some point. And now it would seem that the Malthusian doom-sayers
have found something else to worry about. Your average porker needs
more food to keep giong than do us skinny people (he gloated!) And
with calculations
showing that twelve Americans weighing the same as seventeen
Asians, it would seem that western obesity is effectively reducing
the available food resources as badly as adding an extra fifty six
million people would.
Perhaps diets might be in
order. Works for me (!)
Mind you, when you
consider the latest gadget to hit the streets - automatic
cake dispensers - is it surprising we have a world of chubbies?
And then I dropped my
Kindle. For all that I love the idea of ebooks, an ebook reader with
a knacked screen is no good to anyone. If any of my loyal readers
could recommend a cheap ebook reader, I'm all ears...
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