ABSILVER's World

I am on a flight and on a new journey.... More importantly I can't design a flower garden or paint a picture.  Where am I headed? Some random observations : I am much more interested every morning in LinkedIn than Facebook.  Represents more friends and interest in where they are going.  Targeted communities will lead social and we will join them as we did clubs and fraternities in the old days.  The more ill placed ads on Facebook the less interested I become and more concerned about their profiling me.  We need Europe to rise again to focus on privacy issues that the US fails to be concerned about.   These personalized ads are an invasion of privacy, but the us culture gave in to worrying about this as google rose years ago.  Lenovo is proving innovative in the PC and tablet space.  The new Thinkpad Helix is exciting to me...  Yoga 11s is a good budget alternative and the Horizon looks like fun. Will the next retail space be Lenovo stores. You can't really buy

The advantage of being human, and not a computer is the ability to make decisions on incomplete information.  Instead of having to know every chess move on the table to make a choice, we humans can make a choice based on not just the facts but instincts, experience, and feelings.  Sometimes you just have to pick up the pawn and move it and it is is a stroke of genius and sometimes it is checkmate but humans tend to make choices. The advantage as I get older and as a human is I realize these decisions are not just possible, they are required.  If we wait for all possible input, and facts to decide most of us would become hermits and society would come to a stand still.  So, as I age, I tend to make decisions quicker.  I was trained for speed in the corporate world of IBM as a race horse is trained to run, make choices, or be guided and try every time to come out of the gate quickly and win the race.  Maturity is about realizing you can't always come first, and frankly you can'