Not Size That Counts Wow!!! An amoeba has more DNA than a Human Being!!!!!

 Come on Team!

To have car insurance is to provide financial protection against physical damage and/or bodily injury resulting from traffic collisions and against liability that could also arise therefore.

To have health insurance is to have coverage that pays for medical and surgical expenses that are incurred by the insurer.

We are part of a state of society were we pursue happiness and safety. The government is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people.

After these definitions, let’s check the conversations I heard, I had, I know about…

“… I am healthy; the health insurance is not for me because I take good care of myself so, I can use the money for other things…” Two women in their mid-forties agreeing with the statement.

Another woman same age “… My 17 year old kid had an accident while snowboarding, he was taken by helicopter by a rescue team and hospitalized, now he is wearing a cast for his leg and at home. He was not insured so I need to pay the bills, the only way is to sell my home and to use my retirement savings, and I don’t know what to do…” Two years later she got cancer and died in three months.

We can go on and on telling stories. In general as a country we cannot have people uninsured because it has ripple effects for all of us.

Let’s just imaged that our body carries our self like a car, so, like a car everybody needs to be insured, it does not matter your luck, your genes, and your age… everybody carries a probability to use doctor’s services, dentist’s visits, ambulances, hospitals, rescue teams.

The government does not tell you what to do; the government is there to protect you as a part of society; that is why we build it in the first place.

This entire Congress debacle is just stressing and hurting people. It is a way of polluting humanity, scaring people does not give more votes. Trying to destroy something just because it is not in your side is not part of team work. When we talk about America, we include everybody right now. For hard workers there is the vital necessity to have the comfort of coverage for all of us. In other countries they are looking at us, and a kid just told me, “… I can’t imagine that someone has to sell his house for medical help… I hope this will change one day…” If a kid can understand this, I think Congress can too. We do the best for the team and the name of the team is America, let’s just do it for our own sake and our future generations.

My Thoughts A Year Ago…

In August 2012 I was writing my thoughts while eating, and getting ready for my computer class. It was a sunny day as almost all days in OC California… I had worked in my online courses and I had this vision about what I wanted to have in the near future.

First  I imagined myself composing images, movies, songs, blogs with the perfect fit of my way of thinking. Second, I had thought that most of the time you do not see what is behind  the screen or how the traffic  in the internet is moving or if you can see who stopped by your things, besides the people that you know and commented or sent a signal that they where there. It was like a mysterious box of limited information in plain sight. Also I wanted to share with the internauts, in general, the brands, institutions, organizations, places, that wowed me to glorify and perpetuate their existence. My apps I imaged could be like my personal assistant, trainer, tutor, planner… I wanted to have my special robot to remind me, to advice me , to be my special tool for all the things I knew I will required  precision and accuracy; let’s say my Swiss Army knife of the 21 Century.

Huy! I wanted something that can count and check my calories intake; my weights, and my burning calories, predict my perfect next meal. And do the same counting and checking and predicting for all my activities; the mental and the physical ones. My robot is for me so different as it is portrayed everywhere, it is not an entity but a series of devices, or a device that can include for my body to have my vitals, and for my exercise to record my position, effort and precise movements to induce the maximum potential of my health and brain.

I went farther, while I was typing I wrote, why the typing? When it could be a device which can fetch my thoughts… all my thoughts… the deepest ones… the ones that I don’t even know I have… (Very controversial  now I see) I went on; How about if I can have a conversation with somebody else in my mind… the energy that we can save, the waist that can be avoid… We can be all so synchronized that, we actually can have space for the wilderness, time to restore Nature and pursue the evolution of societies… Well that was then. From a year to today I am totally amazed of how much it has been accomplished!

At my online school, Udacity; I just read an article where the goal is going to be, and I quote; “…the creation of  a piece of artificial intelligence that sits there, watches you learn, and helps you pick the right learning venue or task, so you’re more effective and have more pleasure.” (Sebastian Thrun)

The number of applications downloaded just in December was two billion; the most popular were Google Maps, Facebook, and You Tube. So people, like to know where they are, and where are they going. People like to socialize and communicate with friends. People like to watch videos, to learn, to buy, to entertain, to send messages, and more.

Our phones are our agendas, portal to games, music, movies, conference rooms, learning environment, physical trainer, animate our household, monitor rooms, experiment, situations… This is now; it is a huge non stopping trend. Our watches can have our vitals. Apps can take a pic of a portion of skin and send it to be analyzed for possible cancerous cells. Yes, indeed we are making progress. Maybe I have the same thoughts of many more persons that I had imaged. But I know that we are living in a singularity, so this is what we are expecting according to the analysis of trends… It is fascinating to see what we have foreseen just some months ago.

Tutor planned for Udacity

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