Consider this with dr.B

Isaac Asimov was one of the best science fiction writers of the 20th century. I highly recommend his books, even to people who do not like science fiction, because his stories always  make you feel that this is how it is really going to happen in the future. In one of his books the world is ruled by high-priests. They were the only ones that knew how to control nuclear energy and they would like to keep it that way, because everyone was depending on it.  Knowledge is power. During my working life in the development of MRI scanners I made the comparison with this world of Asimov and our world we live in. In a not so distant future nobody knows in detail how an MRI scanner works. I doubt whether the knowledgeable people that are left will become high priests. But I am sure that this technology will have a slower development than it deserves, because the number of people that knows how it works will decrease over time. What people have learned over the first 20 years after the i...

Happy New Year, readers of blog number 3. That does not mean a non-Happy New Year wish to the non-readers, but readers have of course an advantage from the start in this new year. Ehh... Do I really mean that? I am getting lost from the start. Well, does it really help, wishing that the new year will be great? Or is it just a habit to do so? I suppose it is, strange people, those humans.  January 1 as New Years Day is arbitrary anyway.  Thanks to Julius Caesar in 44 BC who wanted the god Janus to be good to him and gave him the month of January. Before that time March 1 was the start of the New Year. We still recognize that in the Latin names Septem(7)ber, Octo(8)ber, Novem(9)ber and Decem(10)ber. February was a kind of left-over month. The year had 355 days and depending on the amount of festivities and the availability of wine February was filled with a few more days. But in fact January 1 is arbitrary. Other cultures than the Western countries have different days for N...