Future Friday

I'll be away in Sacramento for the next little while; so, my next update may not be very big on Monday.  Hopefully you'll all survive the weekend and the first day back to work on Monday without me, though.

I am trying something for the first time ever today--writing a blog post in advance and scheduling it to post for me (hopefully) today--Friday.  We'll see how this works, and if it works well, ...well, ...you may see more of this in the future.

Speaking of the future, I found a neat little info-graphic from the Pew Research Center.  They asked Americans what life would be like fifty years from now, and here are their findings--along with those lovely pictures.

While we're looking to the future, we may want to check out some current science, as well--science that may be able to help us better understand where our world is headed in the future.  With that in mind, take a look at this:

These pictures were taken to show a portion of the Pine Island Glacier in Antarctica that broke off last November.  It's roaming about down there in the sea now, but the National Ice Center (yes, we have one of those) has been keeping track of it.  It doesn't appear to pose any real threats to shipping right now, but considering it's six times the size of Manhattan, it seems wise to keep an eye on it.

If you're interested in reading more about this, check out this article, and if you'd like to find out more about the National Ice Center (I really can't type that with a straight face...) check out their web site here.

So we've got a plan to get people to Mars.  It's not a fast plan, and it's actually kind of interesting how NASA wants to go about it.  But rather than try and explain it to you myself, I'll leave that to the current NASA administrator, Charles Bolden, as he speaks at the Humans to Mars Summit (that also makes me kind of grin, too).


And not so far in the distant future, the next Dragon Age is coming out: Dragon Age: Inquisition.  Check out this new video they posted this week for the game.


And last, but not least, I found this video about the movie Aviator that speaks about OCD and the ways that it affects peoples' lives.  Taking a step back in time allows us to see how far we've come, and so from the past, we begin to envision a brighter future today.