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The future of nano robotics, miniature fuel sources and genetic engineering.

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Nano robotics, genetic engineering, cancer slowing glues, optics, laser physics and technologies, film, politics, aging population, demographic shifts and trends, quantum computers, plasma physics

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• A reply on Conversation: What is one thing holding Canada back from fulfilling its potential?

  Jul 15 2011: I think you're right Michael. Thanks for the serious answer. I agree that modesty is nice, but it can hurt you too. It leads others to think you're a push over rather than an autonomous entity with self determining powers, sovereignty and something to offer the world (other than our natural resources).

• A reply on Conversation: What's your favorite false dichotomy?

  Jul 15 2011: Cynicism vs. Sarcasm.

• A comment on Conversation: What's your favorite false dichotomy?

  Jul 13 2011: Ah, there's a million of them. Logic vs. reason, nature vs. nurture...

• A comment on Conversation: What's your favorite false dichotomy?

  Jul 13 2011: God vs. the Devil
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  A comment on Conversation: Our modern societies still need feminism

  Jul 11 2011: I think it is only right that women experience fairness in terms of being given non-accumulated, short term compensated absences for having children. The natural birthrates in some Western countries are atrocious. The middle class needs to be making more babies, not less. That won't happen without less discouragement from some employers.
  
  What's the point in nesting our grounds without being able to naturally generate our own baby chicks?
  
  Employers need to consider their agendas with an understanding of human nature, not a bias against it.
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  A comment on Conversation: What, if anything, do you think young people can teach adults?

  Jul 9 2011: Young people can teach the old to have more FUN at work! People are more productive when they are happy. I don't think this new generation will tolerate brutal bosses for long. We aren't brow beaten enough to accept too much crap just because earlier generations did.
  
  What did all those previous generations fight for if not to have us have it a bit better. Come on!

• A comment on Conversation: What do you guys say about bullying?

  Jul 9 2011: Bullying? Ha.
  
  It depends on where a person is bullied? School? Work? Home?
  
  Overall, it's usually used as a force to normalize that which is abnormal through use of fear, humiliation and abuse. Or just having one person get from you what they want (probably cause they were bullied too at some point).
  
  Group bullying is the worst. When a group of people bully an individual, especially as a youth, there is nothing more demonic. The blind judging the blind. Like surgery being performed by a bunch of idiotic psychos. Youth is hell for some.
  
  That said, some form of bullying can actually create very motivated,self-possessed individuals who are intellectually self-motivated to constantly improve, using the bully voice as a self-critic to better oneself. They may in fact be the ones keeping our economy and countries running. (The bullies and the bullied working in unison!)
  
  Perfectionist bullies at least have some positive side effects (as long as they ultimately wish you to become more intelligent, genuinely, it can be forgiven).
  
  A bunch of stupid children talking sh*$ is something else. That is pure cowardice.

• A comment on Conversation: Where do you think consciousness comes from?

  Jul 9 2011: You CAN have something without nothing. That's the difference.

• A reply on Conversation: Where do you think consciousness comes from?

  Jul 8 2011: Actually Matt, you can't have nothing without comparing it with something! Nothing is a relative term.

• A comment on Conversation: Where do you think consciousness comes from?

  Jul 8 2011: The memory and one's chemical responses to stimuli (which converts one's memories into a self-serving or self-aggrandizing retro-active set of memories, whichever one prefers).
  
  It's all just fascinations and re-affirmations.