Change & Wonder

Monday, July 24, 2023

This morning will bring a hay delivery. I’m thankful for lower hay costs following a wetter winter. Several dry winters preceding this one curtailed crop growth, boosting costs out of sight.

It’s a reminder that, in one way or another, we’re grasping the potential power of two astonishing conditions. Those are climate change and human technology, impacting our world significantly.

I’m considering two key technologies now capturing bunches of attention, AI and batteries, both controversial. AI has the potential both to help and exploit humans. Battery technology will increasingly need rare Earth resources. Developing the technologies appropriately will require less belligerence and more collaboration among nations.

It’s ironic wishing to move ahead intellectually and technologically in light of current world behaviors. Conditions of collaboration aren’t glimmering against the realities of war in Ukraine, of rioters flooding the streets in Iran and Jerusalem, of severe drought and hunger conditions in African countries, and of people fleeing their home countries for better living conditions.

In America, our embattled institutions exhibit little, if any, collaboration. Among a majority of American voters, our major institutions and their leaders are in disfavor.

Dear Friends: Earthy conditions of “no turning back” curtain our future. Diana