Five Things NOT To Gift To A Loved One This Holiday Season If You Have A Heart Or A Brain (Or A Soul)
By Patricia Burke If you or you loved one have a heart and a brain, including your dog, cat, gerbil, mouse, gecko, or parrot, there…
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The Twelve Days of Christmas Hacking
By Patricia Burke On the twelfth day of Christmas my IOT 5G M2M data-mining tech industry gave to me: Twelve Russian Intelligence Officers Charged Over…
5G: A WRONG WAY DRIVER on the Path to Scientific Inquiry and Media Integrity
By Patricia Burke On November 21, the eve of Thanksgiving, a wrong way driver on route 495 in Taunton, MA injured 6 people and lost…
Liar, Liar My Brain is on Fire
By Patricia Burke In the chemical industry’s glory days, around the 1960s and 1970s, innovation ran wild, and the economy was booming. For example, in…
Climate Change Conversations and 5G: There Must Be 50 Ways … to Wreck the Planet. Let’s NOT look at ONLY one!
By Patricia Burke Paul Simon wrote; “She said it’s really not my habit to intrude Furthermore, I hope my meaning won’t be lost or misconstrued…
Woodchucks, Cigarettes, Asbestos, and Wireless; What Are We Smoking?
By Patricia Burke How much science would a corrupt scientist corrupt If a corrupt scientist could corrupt science? “These people are not scientists. They are…
A Thanksgiving Fable For Our Time…
By Patricia Burke When my children were young, they participated in a recreation of “The First Thanksgiving” in school. Some children dressed as pilgrims, and…
The “Artificial” of Artificial Intelligence and MIT’s “Moral Machine”
By Patricia Burke At the Media Lab at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology, researchers wanted to explore some of the ethical and moral dilemmas…
Why We Need 5G’s Self-Driving Cars and Virtual Reality Like a Hole in the Head
By Patricia Burke The 1960’s television series Lost in Space featured a “Class M-3, Model B9, General Utility Non-Theorizing Environmental Robot (G.U.N.T.E.R.), which had no…
Wireless Wars: When Censors Control the Sensors
Op-Ed by Patricia Burke The conveniences of the emerging explosion of artificial intelligence, machine-to-machine learning, and ubiquitous “5G” fifth-generation connectivity of the 4th industrial revolution…
When Smart Cities Need Citizens Asleep-at-the-Wheel, It is Time To Change Direction
By Patricia Burke Many pro-industry groups have compiled lists of the benefits of smart cities, the promise of data-driven decision-making, and the purported benefits of…
It’s Past Time to Oppose The Telecom Power Grab
By Patricia Burke On September 26, 2018, the FCC meets to discuss ways to expedite the installation of “small cells” required for the roll-out of…
It’s Time to Break Up the Forced Child-Bride Marriage Between Solar, Sustainability, and Smart Meters
By Patricia Burke In 2009, utilities across the U.S. began installing new two-way wireless electric smart meters on homes. With economic stimulus funding from the…
“Smart” Meters and Solar, Why Clean Energy/Sustainability/Conservation/Climate Change Mitigation Is Like a Game of Whack-A-Mole
By Patricia Burke A few years back, the deployment of wireless smart utility meters and smart grids was “sold” to the public, especially environmentalists, in…