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FOILING IS HERE TO STAY

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Foiling is here to stay. We can never unsee the excitement it evokes.The America’s Cup exposed the world to foiling and anything less will never again be acceptable to the public. This event will be remembered as the defining moment of change in sailing as a sport.
I have predicted before and will state again the 2020 Olympic games will feature at least one foiling class if not two.

THE FUTURE IS HERE NOW

SpeedDream is a story that I have been following for a while, I have posted about it earlier. The next step in Monohull sailing. The America’s Cup has just finished a week of racing in San Francisco and today three of the teams will unveil their respective 72 foot boats; which will take the America’s cup to a whole new level.

Cloud Computing, a phrase that is easily thrown around, has been around for along time already, but still in it’s infancy. Amazon is one of the big suppliers. All of this is changing the face of how business is conducted.I wonder what the future consequences will be; when one does not really have control over one’s own material.It is truly in someone else’s hands.Or, someone else’s server.

I am my age, I am used to the idea that in order to sell something you must have a product to exchange for money. Clearly I am old fashioned. I find it harder very day to justify my existence on earth. My ideas do not find as easily as they once did.

I suppose it is one of the reasons I like long distance sailing. Life is reduced to very elemental levels. Perhaps it reminds us who or what we really are. I have very little desire to go into space, I find the world has much to much to offer. I would like to see the earth from space, however.

IF I HAD TO CHOOSE

The Debt ceiling is on everyone’s mind. One of the regrettable upshots of this crisis is our government’s inability to govern. We move from one crisis to the next. There seems to be no plan. Most businesses have plans; Apple is perhaps the best example of this given how very successful the company has been.

If I were to choose the most important issues going forward: Water, energy storage, and the economy.