While the great rebalancing and restructuring is ongoing in Europe, the old guard is trying to hold on to their power, and young generations are desperate for their future.

Young people want to dream, they do not want to be surrounded by depressed people that do not know how to smile anymore. 

Given what is going on, it is not surprising that some are starting to leave Europe heading south.

I haven't had time to write a structured post in a while, mostly because I have been looking into some new technology involving lots of programming. It seems to me that the "programming" state of mind is very different from the "making connections between different fields" state of mind.  

Programming is about breaking a problem into parts, coding to implement each part and testing every possible outcome to be sure that the overall code does not break in the context in which it has been thought.

One of the recurring themes of the current economic crisis is the idea of rebalancing the global economy.

But where are the imbalances? Most would think about the West vs. East, or developed vs. developing countries.

It is certainly true that those imbalances will have to be sorted out, but it turns out that there are other less overt imbalances which threaten to undermine the current economic order.

On my TV I can now watch Internet videos, movies, and photos, listen to music and much much more ... (just keep reading below); also, I can use a hand-held mini-keyboard and mouse-pad to control everything.

It took me some time to think about the system, buy the parts, assemble and configure them.

Do you ever have the feeling that you can see technology changing around you – and you see it accelerating? You see the impact on society of this or that new gadget, of a new framework or new model before others can see it and everything is just SO interesting, SO laden with consequences that you want to talk about it SO badly.

But yet, nobody seems to see or care!

The great majority of people do not understand what is happening, preferring to watch television and chase old, outdated and impossible dreams.

Yes, Asia is rising and Europe and the US are declining, but the West will endure.  

Consumption is slowing in the West, and technology is growing. Is there a causal link between the two? Is technology driving down consumption?

Or another related hypothesis: is the recession caused by an exodus from atoms to bits?

This new service from Google is useful when you have to write in English, or any other language.

The best way to understand it is to use it. It is not a spell checker, it is a prediction engine. Play with it, and you'll realize how helpful it can be.