Usual Suspect… Inflation?John Ink2Quill Opinionswww.ink2quill.com There are so many discussions about inflation nowadays. It is the phenomenon that gets the blame for all the ills of the Western World today. If the taxation systems seem unfair or outdated, well then it’s the fault of inflation because blah, blah, blah. If any of the economies in…
Inflation And DevaluationJohn Ink2Quill Opinionwww.ink2quill.com There are a lot of talks on inflation nowadays and for good reason. The prices in many Western countries continue to rise as we continue to find metrics that make them look less severe. Inflation to an economist is a little like gravity to a physicist in that it is…
Minority ReportWritten by Philip K. Dickwww.ink2quill.com “Minority Report” is a scifi novella written by the American scifi great Philip K. Dick. It was published in 1956 and was adapted into a film by Steven Spielberg in 2002. It remains one of the most well known stories dealing with the use of predictive technologies to fight…
Persistent Ideas To False BeliefsJohn Ink2Quill September 2023 Opinionswww.ink2quill.com Persistent ideas. There are so many of them. And by persistent ideas I mean thoughts and beliefs that are but should not be held as truths. I read a great book that highlights this idea in the world of baseball called “Moneyball”. I won’t rehash the…
No Country For Old MenWritten by Cormac McCarthywww.ink2quill.com “No Country For Old Men” is an American drug, crime novel written by Cormac McCarthy. It is more than just a crime novel though. The title of the novel is taken from the line of a W. B. Yeats poem called “Sailing To Byzantium”. A very successful…
Foundationreleased 2021www.ink2quill.com “Foundation” is an American, sci-fi streaming series based on the Isaac Asimov Foundation Series with a ginormous caste of very talented people. This streaming series has one of the largest size cast of workers I have ever seen in a streaming series. It’s a really good thing to see so many highly talented…
The Unexpected A.I.Written by John Ink2Quillwww.ink2quill.com We all have our ideas what A.I. should be like, what it should develop into, and how it should be of service to us. We also have an idea of being overshadowed and consumed by A.I. The scifi genre is in a sinister phase where most depictions of A.I….
Digital money is a little like owning a house without any windows or doors where institutions and even employers can just walk in and look around, even take what they deem they have a right to.
Master Of The World: Maître du mondeWritten by Jules Vernewww.ink2quill.com “Master Of The World: Maître du monde” is one of Jules Verne’s last novels published in 1904. The French novelist Jules Verne along with the likes of H.G. Wells, Mary Shelley and a few others are considered the parents of the sci-fi genre for the…
Fertility, The Future of…John Ink2Quill Editorialwww.ink2quill.com The themes of fertility, love and relationships are at the very center of the sci-fi genre. Such is the case with so many other genres also. The most well known stories are the simple ones of man and woman falling in love, or two people falling in love. That…