N.A. Drescher

Is it time to get rid of cars? Think about it for a moment. Driving is a royal pain in the ass. It's ridiculously expensive and car-owners are milked for every last penny from both government and private business. Also, i t's incredibly dangerous; car accidents make up the fourth most common cause of death around the world. And it's frustrating that  the government hands a license to pretty much every who applies and you get some of the biggest douches behind the wheel everywhere you go! And let us not forget that i t's horrible for the environment, with nearly half of all greenhouse gas emissions coming from the ONE BILLION motor vehicles that are on our roads around the world. Cars need to be eliminated from our economic and cultural makeup and replaced with efficient, clean, automated and affordable public transit. A Brief Look At How We Got Here Cars and highways and driver licenses and auto insurance are relatively new to the world. The roads of A

We’ve all been there. As tech enthusiasts, we spend most of our time conversing with other people in the know. But when I casually mentioned the upcoming Libra crypto to my mom, I was met with a blank stare. It was a bit of a revelation. Until now I had just assumed that Libra was front-page news everywhere. I couldn’t believe that my mom had never heard of it. “But Mum!” I stammered (she’s British) “It’s all over Facebook!” Apparently, it’s only all over Facebook for me. I had forgotten about those algorithms. Who knows what Facebook is feeding my mom? If you’ve ever been stumped by a Baby Boomer’s reaction to technology that will change the course of the future, you’ll know what I was feeling. But it doesn’t have to be so. And thankfully I was able to gather myself together and explain Libra, a blockchain, and cryptocurrency to my mom in a way that she understood. Here’s how I did it. Our Moms Oh, the Baby Boomer generation. They look so cool in those 1960s films, wh