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Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer at Xerox, died on December 26 2020 at the age of 81 RIP, Charles Thacker, one of the lead hardware designers on the Xerox Alto, the first modern personal computer, and co-Inventor Of Ethernet networking (with Bob Metcalf) died after a brief illness on June 12, 2017. He was 74. RIP Ken Olsen, who cofounded Digital Equipment Corp. and built it into the second-largest computer company in the nation by creating small but powerful machines called minicomputers, died Feburary 6, 2011.He was 84. RIP Gary Kildall, who's been called the father of the personal computer, because he devised a computer-operating system known as CP/M and founded Digital Research, Inc. (DRI).. He died July 11, 1994 at the age of 52. RIP Raymond Noorda American computer businessman and CEO of Novell (1982-1994) passed away on October 9, 2006. He was 82. RIP Larry Tesler, Computer Scientist Who Created Cut, Copy, and Paste, Dies At 74 Monday February 17, 2020 RIP Elyse Rosenstein, 69, died suddenly on February 20th. With Joyce Yasner, Joan Winston, Linda Deneroff and Devra Langsam, she organized the very first Star Trek convention, held in New York City in 1972.RIP J. C. R. or "Lick" Licklider a computer scientist who is considered one of the most important figures in computer science and general computing history Died:June 26, 1990 RIP William (Bill) English, Engineer Behind 'The Mother of All Demos', and the computer mouse, died Sunday July 26, 2020 at age 91 RIP Frances "Fran" Allen, a pioneer in the world of computing, the first female IBM Fellow and the first woman to win the Turing Award, died on August 4, 2020, the day of her 88th birthday. RIP Computer scientist Russell A. Kirsch, the inventor of the pixel and an undisputed pioneer of digital imaging, passed away on Tuesday in his Portland home from complications arising from a form of Alzheimer's disease. He was 91 years old. RIP Ann Syrdal, a psychologist and computer science researcher who helped develop synthetic voices that sounded like women, laying the groundwork for such modern digital assistants as Apple's Siri and Amazon's Alexa, died on July 24 at her home in San Jose, Calif. She was 74.RIP Boardwatch/EVTV Founder Jack Rickard Dies Sunday September 06, 2020 at Age 65 RIP Norman Abramson, one of the pioneers behind wireless networks, has died Friday December 11, 2020 he was 88 RIP.Edmund Clarke, 2007 Winner of the Turing Award, Dies of Covid-19 on Sunday December 27, 2020. RIP David Boggs, an electrical engineer and computer scientist who helped create Ethernet, the computer networking technology that connects PCs to printers, other devices and the Internet in offices and homes, died on Feb. 19 in Palo Alto, Calif. He was 71.RIP. Intel announced Friday that Gordon Moore, Intel's co-founder, has died at the age of 94, Friday March 24, 2023 RIP Kevin Mitnick, Hacker and CyberSecurity Consultant died from pancreatic cancer on Sunday July 16, 2023 at age 59 RIP, Monday August 21, 2023 John Warnock, co-founder and ex-CEO of Adobe, creator of the Postscript language and the PDF format, has died at the age of 82. RIP Dennis Austin, the principal software developer of PowerPoint, passed away from lung cancer on Sept. 1, 2023 RIP Molly E. Holzschlag passed away on September 5, 2023, at the age of 60. She was known as "the fairy godmother of the web" for her pioneering work in online design and open standards. RIP John Walker, programmer and co-founder of AutoDesk, has passed away. 1949-February 2, 2024. RIP Writers Page

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The Insider

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"In a Time of Universal Deceit — Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act, and this kind of Courage becomes Contagious"

This is where you will find my essays, stories and novels.

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." Albert Einstein

Readers beware, these essays may interest, inform, enlighten, enrich, amuse you, dispel myths, theories and speculation, annoy, agitate, anger, infuriate, and even aggravate you with reality.

It seems to me that we are at a time where we are lacking civil reason and factual debate in this county. Our two party political system is supposed to, and previously did, provide for some measure of the exchange of ideas and compromises based in good faith and on a common understanding of verifiable facts. Now we can’t even agree on facts, although just like the study of the sciences, facts are a bit stubborn as they are not dependent on whether or not you believe them. We seem to be information rich, yet knowledge and wisdom poor. Foresight flows from the latter two, and not the first.

These essays represent knowledge, insights and expertise gained from experience and based on factual information. The wisdom and foresight parts are up to the reader. You can think of these essays as crib notes for your busy lives. More than anything, I strive to be factual, accurate, sincere, and honest using the scientific method of linking the original source material directly to the essay.

If you take the blue pill, and create and live in your own reality, you will be constantly challenged and confronted by the actuality of and conflicts with the real world around you. These continuous conflicts may lead you to magical thinking, a belief in the false constructs of the supernatural, the coming of a rapture, and the hope of a better afterlife. But this world will ultimately leave you feeling a hopelessness and depression resulting for many in alcoholism, drug addiction and suicide. The human mind is like a boomerang in that if you throw it too far, it may not come back.

If however you take the red pill as I suggest you do, you will need to actively deal with the complex, dirty, and often confusing and disgusting world around you. This will eventually lead you to the obvious conclusion that you need to become engaged to try to make the world around you a better place in any way you can. This is of course a responsibility you have as a human being, because if you are not here to make the world a better place, then why are you here? To use a metaphor, you cannot feed all the birds during the winter, but you can feed the one’s in your backyard. And so can your neighbor and their neighbors and so on.

I know, I know, there is too much out there for you to care about these days. You are being bombarded with information, misinformation, and disinformation. As a result, you now have too many browser tabs open, so to speak. You are being subjected to the theft and misuse of your personal information by dystopian surveillance machines disguised as your personal devices. Your memory is almost full, and your brain computer feels like it is about to crash with a BSoD (Blue Screen of Death). Beyond your currently open tabs for taking care of yourself and your family, in these essays I will give you a few important tabs I think you should keep open...at least for a while.