Thang Nguyen 555

Cultures on Collision Course

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With some short-term relief work in Asia/Africa and long stint in Telecom, Thang also earned a B.A. at Pennsylvania State University. M.A. in Communication at Wheaton Graduate School, M.A. in Cross-Cultural Communication at Gordon-Conwell Seminary, Boston. In addition, he earned a CELTA – classes taken in Hanoi for cultural re-immersion.

Tag: Moores Law

  • disposable people

    Industrial society once allowed to run its full course leaves behind many casualties: pollution, typhoons, unemployment and crime. Kids with early exposure to the I pad and I phone, turn near-sighted if not bi-focal. Adults with easy access to porn (free or paid) found real organic relationship something of a burden if not boredom. Back…

  • Trash or Treasure

    With 50% youth unemployment in Spain, front-page news showed dumpster diving photos. It shouldn’t be. But it is. Life is difficult, says Scott Peck. And since when was it easy? For years, I put myself in a selfless orbit which , at times, has done much damage to myself (self-sabotage). My appetite for risks and…

  • Time as equalizer

    Presidential terms last four years.  Our life expectancy, used to be much less, now stands in the mid-70’s depends on the air quality near you. It’s an allotment. Non-negotiable. Except for a few variables e.g.unique gene pool, diet, exercise, stress level and accidents. Some people even wish they were dead.  If you drag on day in and day…

  • Reading Idea Man

    What would you do if you hit the PowerBall jackpot? Paul Allen, Idea Man, had several ideas: space travel, mind mapping and music. What would you do if you had no money at all? You would day-dream (travel inside your mind), visualize what you would do if  you had money (like Charlie Chaplin, leaning out of the…

  • Last summer day

    The academic calendar starts just about now. A different season. Different drum beat. Formula and conjugation. Grades and test scores. Cafeteria and classroom. Principal and peers. Pranks and punishment. Same starting point, different finish lines. Education is democratic in nature. I admire people in wheel chairs, still being wheeled their way around the library, trying to reach…

  • Think, Act, and Think again

    We conjured up symbols, codes and instructions for machine to act. Now that the machine does most of the work. It’s time to play? Not necessarily, because machines get smarter. So, we have to upgrade our own software to keep up since there is no return to hunting and harvesting.From Malthusian and Moore’s law.  from Bowling…

  • Moore’s Law for Tech Giants

    If Rip Van Winkle woke up today, he would be surprised to see Facebook. If he had waken up a decade ago, he would have read about Google.And the decade before that, Microsoft. Except this time, Mark Zuckerberg is much younger than the other founders, dominated the media landscape quicker . And he donated part…

  • My machine vs yours

    When Henry Ford put together two motor cycles side by side to invent the automobile, he wasn’t interested in pleasing his customers, “you can have any color you want, as long as it’s black”.  Now, car turns commodity, the Chinese came up with Cherry, the pink car designed to please its female customers  Bye bye…