ZDay presentation – Price of Zero Transition to an RBE

At both the Global ZDay event in Brisbane, Australia the New Zealand ZDay event in Auckland in 2017 and at the Global Zday event in Frankfurt, Germany in 2018 I gave this presentation about the Price of Zero transition to a Natural Law Resource Based Economy. The slides are based on the presentation given on… Continue reading ZDay presentation – Price of Zero Transition to an RBE

Random Future Thought – Genetic Engineering means “human nature” will be different

Right now (2023) it feels like AI is the big thing. It is, it’s made a qualitative leap forward with generative AI. Both Chat GPT style text, image generation (e.g Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Dall-e) and Audio, especially speech. But there’s a phrase I hear a lot. It’s got a bunch of variations but it’s roughly… Continue reading Random Future Thought – Genetic Engineering means “human nature” will be different

Random Future Thought – You BURNED Fossil Fuels?

I think that in the future, e.g 20+ years from now, there will be people living on Mars, the Moon and in outer space. I think they will be appalled at our use of an Internal Combustion Engine. They way we blatantly just BURNED Fossil Fuels to power our transportation. They’ll be horrified, because plastics… Continue reading Random Future Thought – You BURNED Fossil Fuels?

Lenny’s Podcast – How to get press for your Podcast

I’m starting a new category in my site called #KublersCuriosity Or you can think of them as Michael’s Media Recommendations This is where I’ve listened to a Podcast episode or come across something I think is useful and I’ll want to remember the advice later on.Or would like to recommend it to someone else and… Continue reading Lenny’s Podcast – How to get press for your Podcast

6th Sense + touch Grid = tactile knowledge of ship or suit or surroundings

There’s a great technology based around giving people a 6th sense.Currently it’s basically a vibrating smart watch or fitbit like device that’s connected via Bluetooth. The idea is that you can FEEL when something is happening.My thought was to connect it to the Flight Radar 24 APIs so I’d know how close by an aircraft… Continue reading 6th Sense + touch Grid = tactile knowledge of ship or suit or surroundings

Installing php-simple-kafka-lib (librdkafka version issues)

TLDR – Compile librdkafka from source Both Ubuntu 20.04 and AMI Linux 2 (effectively CentOS) have an older version of the librdkafka. My Ubuntu Vagrant VM shows v1.2.1 where as php-simple-kafka-lib shows the requirements as: php: ^7.3|^8.0ext-simple_kafka_client: >=0.1.0librdkafka: >=1.4.0 In order to install the PHP simple_kafka_client extension (using Pecl or complied from source) it needs… Continue reading Installing php-simple-kafka-lib (librdkafka version issues)