BobRingReflections

“What we eat,” “what we shouldn’t eat,” and “what we should eat” get a lot of play these days.  Many people think that much of the food that we eat today is harmful, causing obesity and health problems.  It made me wonder how we (as humans) got to this uncomfortable place.  So, I decided to investigate the subject. This blog will cover the evolution of the human diet, from the time of the earliest humans to the present.  After a brief review of human evolution, to put the history of what we’ve been eating over the millennia in perspective, I’ll cover the diets of early human species, and then modern humans (homo sapiens).  I’ll highlight the beginning of eating meat, and controlling fire and the start of cooking - and talk about the impact on human evolution.  I’ll talk about the Agricultural Revolution, some dietary snapshots of early civilizations, the globalization of diets, the Industrial Revolution, and finally our modern diet and its unhealthy impact ...

My recent blog, “The History of Virtual Reality,” closed with a statement to the effect that the future of virtual reality included integration with another technology, the Internet of Things , which I declined to discuss there as “beyond the scope of the article.”  This blog will address that subject, and try to answer the question:  What is the Internet of Things?   After an introduction, where I will attempt to define and explain the Internet of Things, I will discuss its development history, then current applications, challenges in maturing the technology, and finally the future of the Internet of Things . I will list my primary sources at the end.   Introduction There is an exciting new technology out there that I don’t believe many people have heard about:   the Internet of Things (IoT).   It has fabulous potential, but for many people, hearing about it for the first time, it’s a little scary too. First a definition, then an example: The...