…t in real effort to keep it online. After all, we don’t really buy domain names; we just rent them. And if you publish on somebody else’s domain, you’re at their mercy: Geocities, MySpace, Facebook, Medium, Twitter.

Hybrids are a sham concocted by an antiquated industry to deceive the market and regulators, and one backed up by governments that subsidize something that should never have qualified for any kind of support. Consumers buy them because they seem to address their concerns for the environment. In short, hybrids are the last, poisonous, gasp of an obsolete and profoundly harmful technology.

Samsung has unveiled at CES its Eco Remote, a new, battery-less version of its TV remote control, powered by the energy it is able to capture from the WiFi networks around it (RF energy harvesting).

We are hopefully entering our last wave where we are still a bit on our back foot. The future of this pandemic will be less chaotic, more science based and easier to manage. We need to be cautious, but not paranoid. As I mentioned earlier, most people will get exposed to Omicron, it’s almost inevitable…and getting it does not mean you did something wrong..it means you’re a human in the petri-dish of 21st century life. The good news is that human ingenuity has developed effective vaccines and we are in the precipice of viral treatments. And not that we want more variants, but this might be the one that has the characteristics that provide an offramp to this two year shit-show of uncertainty.