I envision my iPhone as an extension of my persona. It connects me to others around the world and to the World Wide Web of information. My device is always with me, except in the shower. And the Timehop application on my phone daily retrieves pictures and rekindles memories of my children, grandchildren and friends. I no longer have to set up Super Eight movies or locate picture albums. My pictures and videos are always with me and readily available. As I speculate in my science fiction novels, someday we may have a biomechanical chip in our brains and no longer have to carry smart phones.
Future historians will refer to ours as the information age, just as we now label other historical periods as the Industrial Age, the Enlightenment or the Renaissance. We live in the age of computers and information at our fingertips. And are at the cusp of AI (artificial intelligence) as further extensions of the human condition. AI is at the center of the concluding novel of my Stellar Trilogy, coming soon!
It was just 20 years ago that Steve Jobs and Apple began to develop a system to consolidate mobile phones, Blackberries and music in one device. In 2007 the revolutionary first iPhone put powerful connectivity in our hands, and this innovation changed the world.
I remember when “beepers” became available and I could be on medical call, but not slaved to a land phone. I remember putting a dime (yes, a dime) in a payphone along Chapman Highway and struggling to hear a patient over the ongoing traffic noise. The days of announcements at sporting events calling, “Doctor # 99, please call the Doctors Exchange,” are over. This doctor loves technology even when I have to sometimes rely on younglings to help me with my devices.
For me, the first of every week presents a recurring issue. I have a 1,000 word essay due by 6 p.m. on Thursday. As a result, I’m always looking for things which might interest the reader or intrigue me sufficiently to research and write about. (I realize the last sentence ended in a preposition, but I’m no longer in English class and sometimes following the rules of grammar makes a sentence seem contrived.)
Lately, the buzz is about President Trump’s first 100 days in office. Like so many other manipulations, the notion of a president’s first 100 days is a media contrivance. Nonetheless, a new administration must seize the day because election cycles are always approaching and political capital can quickly become mired and sink in the quicksand of the Washington swamp and with the corrupt and politized media.
News blogger Don Surber recently said of Trump, “He learned (from his first term) and he returned.” Trump 2.0 hit the ground running with executive actions and the appointments of some of the most talented people in America. Being an outsider, Trump took the advice of Washington elites in his first term which became problematic. He returned wiser and more determined to Make America Great Again with the help of accomplished and loyal people.
Cindy Lauper once sang, “Girls just wanna have fun…” I don’t understand it, but President Trump says he’s “having fun.” Perhaps it is the fighter who rose from the stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, the man who defeated Democrat impeachments, crooked judges and bogus court cases, exposed the dishonest news media and along the way sued networks to ruin. Trump vanquished the Democrats in November and has continued to troll and provoke them to destroy themselves because they can’t control their irrational hatred of Trump. It is amazing to watch. My schadenfreude is still tingling!
As an example, I cite Trump’s spectacular accomplishment of closing the border to illegal invasion and arrests of criminal aliens, gang members and their accomplices. We didn’t need new laws. We just needed a real president to enforce our laws. And the Democrats continue to take the side of illegal aliens and criminals rather than law abiding American citizens. Last week I wrote about Democrats taking the 20% side of just about every issue rather than the side taken by 80% of American citizens. I love Trump trolling the media (90% of which are Democrats) with 100 mugshots of arrested criminal aliens on the White House lawn. President Trump, Director of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) Tom Homan and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem are working to make Americans safe again.
President Trump was historically reelected to change the status quo that was leading our country (if not the entire Western World) to economic collapse. Doing nothing has produced a $37 trillion debt which is criminal. The federal government raises enough income. It just can’t curb its profligate spending. And nibbling around the edges to fix it, as both political parties have done, has been a failure of leadership and arguably criminal.
Trump is revolutionary because he is fulfilling campaign promises. This is not what politicians do, but Trump is not a career politician. Sixty years of leadership by politicians has led us to the brink of collapse. What has been good for the world has not necessarily been good for America. Our revolutionary has the courage to fix the border crisis, reindustrialize America, address waste, fraud and abuse in the government, eliminate the inherently racist DEI, reform the dysfunctional education system, reform international trading inequities and restructure America’s geopolitical position in the world.
Big government Democrats and RINOs, unelected bureaucrats, the media, academia, and apparently judges don’t want change nor their gravy trains to be upset. These elites have opposed the agent of change with categorical lies, 92% negative press, impeachments, spying on Trump’s family and campaign, fraudulent court cases, attempts at removing him from ballot boxes, violating the sanctity of his home and two assassination attempts. And now judges break the law while screaming “No one is above the law.”
The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said everything changes. And the changes that are necessary to save our country will cause some distress and upheaval. I’m not smart enough to expound on tariffs and Trump’s revolutionary agenda. But I do know that doing the same things over and over has not worked and will lead to collapse. Everyone knows it, but only one has arisen with the courage to make the tough calls which are necessary.
Therefore, I trust the experienced businessman, the negotiator and the MAGA revolutionary. I trust Trump.
