{"id":3997,"date":"2017-12-18T12:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewgreenlee.wordpress.com\/?p=3997"},"modified":"2017-12-18T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T18:10:16","slug":"2017-a-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/?p=3997","title":{"rendered":"2017 &#8211; A Year in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2220 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/ewgreenlee.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/chimp.jpg?resize=320%2C213\" alt=\"chimp\" width=\"320\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it&#8217;s another year, but what a year! Not only did I relocate from Hawaii to Florida, but I outran hurricane Irma and used my Christmas gift budget on teeth.\u00a0 But enough about me, let&#8217;s digest what in the world happened to the world during the craziest year in my full 58 years of life.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">WWIII<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Article after article suggest WWIII could break out in five different places like North Korea, the Persian Gulf, Ukraine, etc.\u00a0 But I would add a sixth or seventh place of origin &#8211; TWITTER or FACEBOOK.\u00a0 Is it just me but are people hurling more bombs in these anti-social media sites?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Government Corruption<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Okay, no change here, moving along.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">AI<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Actual Ignorance increased by astronomical amounts and is expected to be the eighth cause of WWIII.\u00a0 Articles such as the thief who had to text the police to pull him out of a chimney, for a house he was about to rob.\u00a0 Listen dude, get off the crack and stop watching Santa movies, it&#8217;s warping your mind more than mine.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">AV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Autonomous vehicles made the news more often, but if we head towards WWIII, it might be that it begins when we realize that you can only go 25 MPH.\u00a0 This is when you take control to go 50 MPH and cutoff all other AV&#8217;s, when the AI (the other AI) can&#8217;t handle the computations.\u00a0 I predict massive casualties and 100 million car pile-up.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">EV<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Electric vehicles are all the rage now.\u00a0 Here in Naples, FL I&#8217;ve actually seen Tesla recharging slots at a retail center with not one Tesla vehicle being recharged.\u00a0 Of the 400,000 orders in place for the Model 3, the company was able to produce 262 in the third quarter.\u00a0 That means in 1,526 quarters all orders will be filled.\u00a0 I think that equates to 381 years.\u00a0 Technology is so blindingly fast.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t get me started on Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">FUPTA<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I just made this acronym up so that I&#8217;d appear all cool and hip.\u00a0 Talk among yourselves and be creative what it might stand for.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Star Wars 2017<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Setting records big time, but did anyone ever question why there aren&#8217;t any ADS&#8217;s (Autonomous Death Stars) and why ES&#8217;s (Electric Starfighters) are not in use?\u00a0 Not so futuristic after all, is it?\u00a0 Why not just let AI take hold, grab yourself a seat with a huge bag of popcorn and supersized drum of pop to watch C3PO defeat AVEV3, or listen to Alexa take down Siri in an AI intellectual death match.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Social Media Brain Washing<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been told that social media is now influencing our political thoughts and that we simply are not intelligent enough to discern a foreign government&#8217;s influence in the election process.\u00a0 So wake up comrades and stop viewing all the puppy and kitten videos, wine memes, and messenger requests from &#8220;Inizzi Love&#8221; or &#8220;Igotta Love&#8221; &#8211; these are all communists indoctrination ploys.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">The Other AI<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ve been warned, the start of WWIII will begin when AI decides to takeover the world. That makes about a bakers dozen for reasons WWIII is coming.\u00a0 From one report I read, Facebook had two AI engines that actually created their own language and had to be shut down.\u00a0 I think they were ordering pizza on the company account.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Game of Thrones &#8211; Final Season<\/span><\/p>\n<p>No matter what triggers WWIII, it will only happen until we see how the really narcissistic despot rulers deal with all the distrust and hatred. I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s not going to be a series of Tweets.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Outlander Season 3<\/span><\/p>\n<p>My wife, a fan of the books and shows, convinced me to watch with her.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve liked almost everything up to the point where Claire returns to the past.\u00a0 This is where my logical thinking couldn&#8217;t reconcile parts of the story.\u00a0 It all moved a little too fast for me &#8211; from Scotland, to Jamaica, to Georgia in such a relatively little amount of time, with no assistance from Elon Musk.\u00a0 I mean really, those portals were invented by him so that Claire could bring pizza back from the future, there&#8217;s no other explanation for having them if you are not going to use them, just like a Tesla recharging slot.\u00a0 Then there&#8217;s the hurricane scene that just cropped up in a matter of minutes after the completion of hanky-panky.\u00a0 They survive to get rest after the eye arrives, but what about the back side?\u00a0 Ah ha!\u00a0 I&#8217;ve survived Irma, without any pizza portals.\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure season 4 will be about pizza portal franchises as a front for sedition.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration:underline;\">Happy New Year<\/span><\/p>\n<p>On a serious note, we do not know when the end will arrive, so live each day as it was your last.\u00a0 Find time to laugh and find time to love, even if you&#8217;ve been through hell like James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser.\u00a0 Please forgive digressions, like mine.\u00a0 May your New Year be filled with prosperity and hope that one day we will evolve from AI without the aid of AI (The other AI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Yes, it&#8217;s another year, but what a year! Not only did I relocate from Hawaii to Florida, but I outran hurricane Irma and used my Christmas gift budget on teeth.\u00a0 But enough about me, let&#8217;s digest what in the world happened to the world during the craziest year in my full 58 years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[86,405,427,508,646,943,1046,1077,1167,1208],"class_list":{"0":"post-3997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-actual-ignorance-ai","7":"category-actuial-ignorance-ai","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-elon-musk","10":"tag-ev","11":"tag-game-of-thrones","12":"tag-humor","13":"tag-outlander","14":"tag-review-in-review","15":"tag-satire","16":"tag-star-wars","17":"tag-tesla","18":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allivarcreative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}