Equity market valuations are horrifying, don’t kid yourself

This tweet and chart from Economist David Rosenberg last Friday is worth a ponder for all those still holding and hoping for the miracle of perpetual levitation in the stock market. You are here. What’s your plan?

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The opportunity in clean-tech

In 2011, Vancouver set a goal to become the greenest city in the world by 2020. Ian Hanomansing checks in to see how that’s going 8 years later.  Here is a direct video link.

Also see how Canada’s overall electricity generation is now 84% fossil free.

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Huge processors to tiny in 74 years

In 1945, with funding from the US military, a team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania designed and built the first electronic general-purpose computer.  The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) computed 5000 addition problems per second and required 1,700 sq. ft of space, a concrete floor able to hold 30 tons, enough electrical supply to power 17,800 vacuum tubes, and two large air-conditioners to counter the waste heat it generated.

Fast forward seven decades, and every couple of years we have a whole new level of tiny processors that are faster, smarter and much cheaper.  We should try to imagine where processing abilities will be in a decade, never mind the next seven.  There are only solutions so long as we keep looking and investing in them.

Introducing #RaspberryPi4: your tiny, dual-display, desktop computer…and robot brains, smart home hub, media centre, networked AI core, factory controller, and much more.  Here is a direct video link.

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