On this day in 1886 a Civil War veteran from Texas, Albert Richard Parsons, was falsely accused along with several others of a conspiracy to murder in Chicago, Illinois. By 1893 they were pardoned, yet it was too late to save them from being put to death by police. Why did the American justice system … Continue reading This Day in History: 1886 Haymarket Affair
Although I spent many months deep in the archives of British history to write my Master’s thesis on the WWII liberation of Ethiopia I continue to find things now that I wish I had known a long time ago. Lately I’ve been reading again about Mission 101, where just a few thousand men in an … Continue reading Where does the expression 101 come from?
I recently met with members of state and federal government to discuss counter-drone solutions. When I brought up the 1940s drone issues they said “waaaaaht, I never” so here we go… There was a 1935 Radioplane (RP-1) that evolved by 1939 into OQ-2 for use in the subsequent years. Over 15,000 of these types of … Continue reading Runaway Killer Military Drones of the 1940s
Next time you bang on a vending machine for a bottle that refuses to fall into your hands, ask yourself if restaurants soon will have only robots serving you meals. Maybe it’s true there is no future for humans in service industries. Go ahead, list them all in your head. Maybe problems robots have with … Continue reading Could truck drivers lose their jobs to robots?