The road goes ever on… but the truck’s out of gas.

Hmmm. The future IS going to require a great many paradigm shifts, assuming we can get there. I wonder how things like this might work as part of a global energy and technology mix. There are two things of which I’m fairly certain: the future is going to be science fiction like we never dreamed, even as kids, and if we could come back to see the world in 2300 or so, we wouldn’t recognize 95% of it.   (In my less optimistic moments that’s because by 2300 humans won’t be part OF it in any meaningful way. My futurist ramblings tend to the highly dystopian.)

ScienceDaily (2010-02-21) — Scientists may have just made the breakthrough of a lifetime, turning discarded fruit peels and other throwaways into cheap, clean fuel to power the world’s vehicles.

Holiday Update

A little birdie told me that there’s a major holiday today, or all week, that I’d overlooked.

It’s National Library Week.

Today, specifically, is National Library Workers Day.

Thank your librarian today.  If you don’ t HAVE a librarian, go find one.

And THEN thank them.

(Thanks to the little birdies.  Apparently the wp.com twidget isn’t working properly… though it may be a twitter issue – no shortage of them this week.)

(UPDATE:  It’s working again.  For Now.  Subject to change.)