Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Building up our filtering capacity does not mean firming up our prejudice. But no matter what we do, we can only watch an average of 4 hours of TV and a few hours on the Web, mobile or stationary. So we rely on thought leaders. Two-step information flow. Except…

Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: A few years ago, TIME’s Person of the year got a face with a name. In fact, he manages to drag in a billion faces and names with him. The last time someone wearing pajamas in public yet got that much publicity was John Lennon (who invited the press…

Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: Super computing power arms super shoppers on Super Saturday w/ price updates. Retail outfits such as Best Buy might have to be renamed the age of Dollar Stores. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704694004576019691769574496.html?mod=WSJ_Tech_RightMostPopular Tri Tang of Orange County was holding up his Smart Phone to do some comparison shopping in real-time. Faster chip…

Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: If you watched John Lennon’s Imagine BBC documentary, you would notice George Harrison back then, and his son (as seen in a Memorial concert for George) look like twins. Next generation is here. Yes, they text and play games online. They are the greatest multi-taskers, whose watchwords are recycling,…

Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: By now, we all know about our right to make a phone call when being arrested. That phone call usually is placed from a pay phone (soon to be a museum piece). Skype has been down (and slowly back up to full speed), and 26 million users worldwide felt…

Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: First wave: 1975, 4 “ports of entry”: Arkansas, California, Florida and Pennsylvania. Second wave: 1978 -2008 South Westward to California and Texas. Third wave: joining everyone else during this Recession to the Lone Star State, where 8% unemployment still looks better than 12% and 10% in Florida and California,…

Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: We are diamond in rough cuts. 7 billion of  us. The stats show the costs of raising a child in the US at roughly $200,000.  With educational score cards showing flat line, while other countries are on the up tick (albeit Shanghai focused on rote learning and test preparation),…

Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: “Being There” was first released years ago. Peter Sellers portrayed an illiterate gardener who had been walled in all his adult life. His only window to the world was through the TV screen. Hence his speech and demeanor replicated sound bites and screen gestures (awaiting for a “cut” to…

Originally posted on Thang Nguyen 555: My kid’s elementary school is collecting lip balms to send to our troops overseas. It struck me that we spend our entire life trying to do good, from small gestures to larger ones, only to see others take it away in an instant. I saw the beautiful picture of…