The Old Tin Shed

This is more and observation about modern life than anything else.  Primarily that we have become so interconnected with the world around us. When I was a kid and at school the total sum on knowledge available to me was what was in the local and school library and the city and local papers.  Today kids have access to entire online libraries with millions of titles.  Not only that they have ready access to information found in general web searches, some subjects having literally thousands of sources. But I don't think it has made us any smarter.  In fact I think it has done away with the need to remember since the information is always at our fingertips.  We have become lazy even with our spelling.  The web and instant messaging has made us shorten words, use symbols and then we have spell and grammar checkers to make sure that we get it right.  We don't even have to think in a logical order when writing any more because we can cut and paste parag...

Over the last couple of months, this question has been bandied about like an old hooker.  This has primarily been asked because of the decline in the US economy and the supposed rise of those in Asia.  China, India and Pakistan are now seen by some as ascending to be the most powerful nations on earth, both economically and militarily. Top 10 Economies link What everyone forgets, and sometimes I think its intentional is that the USA is the largest single economy on earth.  China is catching true, but a lot of that economic development in China is being driven by off shore demand for products produced in China.  A very large group of manufacturers have closed factories in the USA and right across the west to take advantage of cost savings of producing in china.  Lots of call center jobs have been exported to India and Pakistan, again taking advantage of cheap labor.  This leads to a cash flow out of the western economies into the developing ones.As the US ...