My premise is that the destiny of man is to emerge or evolve toward an advancing potential and that individual liberty is essential to such progress. Unless a reader shares my premise, he will not respond to my reasoning; nor will it be possible for him to arrive at my conclusions. He may have his eye set on a star I do not see or, if seeing, care nothing whatsoever about. I side with Th…
Communication has always played a pivotal role in the evolution of human culture, societies and civilisation. From symbols, cave paintings, petroglyphs, pictograms, ideograms and alphabet based forms of writing, to computerised forms of communication, such as the Web, search engines, email, mobile phones, VoIP Internet telephony, television and digital media, communication technologies have bee…
The worldwide rise in natural and man-made disasters in the last two decades has questioned the very preparedness to cope with them. Although less frequent, such disasters occur with high impact and completely disrupt the daily lives of people resulting in huge loss of lives and capitals to the extent of wiping out the entire city. Countries the world over have been developing mechanisms to dea…
In a football game, the objective of the players is to get the ball into the opposing team’s net. They make move after move, adopt one strategy after another, all to bring the ball forward and into the goal. Now could you imagine playing football with no objective? All your favorite players will simply run around this huge green field with a ball, not going anywhere, not achieving anything, b…
John Adams, the second President of the United States, always traveled with a book of English poetry and took comfort and pleasure in reading from it during his many long journeys. When his son John Quincy was a young boy Adams told him, “You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.” John Quincy Adams became the sixth President of the United States and the author of over 350 poems. …