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Robots collaborating on the moon!

Did you know that NASA has a program for Robots Collaborating on the moon? They do and its called CADRE - Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration - and its scheduled for late fall 2025. I am psyched to watch the missions play out! Read about it here:  https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/cadre

Envisioning the future . . . the year 2100

  Working on your long-term plan? Read this . . . https://curiousmatrix.com/what-will-the-world-look-like-in-2100/

The "Google Maps effect"

Are you experiencing the "Google Maps effect?”  That's the reality whereby we all drive places listening to our phones spoken directions but have no idea where we are because we never looked at the map.

Tip - Scan to PDF using your phone

 Its easy to send an easy-to-read PDF of pages from printed documents, books, or a handwritten document or form using your phone to scan one or many pages to a single PDF file. How to scan on iPhone https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210336 How to scan on Android https://support.google.com/drive/answer/3145835 #techtips

Andy Weir's Lost Sols

 If you liked The Martian, check out Andy Weir's Lost Sols here: galactanet.com/lostsols.pdf from Andy Weir’s post

Orbiting Solar Sunshade Makes the New York Times!

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 NYTimes: Could a Giant Parasol in Outer Space Help Solve the Climate Crisis? A team that's pursuing a proof of concept orbiting solar sunshade makes the New York Times! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/02/climate/sun-shade-climate-geoengineering.html

Willam W. Gaver The SonicFinder March 1989

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 Who thinks of the SonicFinder for Macintosh OS 7 every time their phone or computer chimes?  William Gaver was prescient and showed us the future! What's he showing us now?  https://researchgate.net/profile/William-Gaver/publication/213799409_The_SonicFinder_An_Interface_that_Uses_Auditory_Icons/links/00b4951837b639e443000000/The-SonicFinder-An-Interface-that-Uses-Auditory-Icons.pdf?origin=publication_detail #futurist