TameBear: The FutureVisions of the near and distant future -- in technology, the environment, science, politics, society and religion. A TameBear weblog.(Untitled)- September 12, 2006 One Million Ways To Die: This one well-sourced story does more than all the 911 anniversary editorials combined to put the risk of terrorism in its proper perspective. As the article notes, you are at greater risk of dying from a hernia than from a terrorist attack. Consider how different things would be if the $400 billion spent on the false-pretenses pre-emptive war in Iraq had instead been used to develop and implement new highway safety technology to alert drivers when they are drifting off.http://www.wisdomroad.com/tamebear/categories/theFuture/2006/09/12.html#a813 |