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Godspeed to my first role model Senator Dan Inouye

Daniel Inouye 214x300 Godspeed to my first role model Senator Dan InouyeGodspeed and rest in peace, United States Senator Daniel K. Inouye. You were the reason why I chose Washington, DC, as my home.

I met you while I was in DC as part of the Close Up government study trip to Washington from my home state, Hawaii.

You met with us — me — and I was impressed and inspired by you.  And now you have passed and I pray for you and wish you well.

You will be missed.

Were it not for you and your seniority and US Senator, Hawaii would surely have been completely forgotten and ignored as the 50th state.

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Funny infographic: what if you had your laptop back in time

infographic humans and laptops dell Funny infographic: what if you had your laptop back in time

I often forget how much in the future I live because this future is my present. But, what would happen if we could bring a brand new laptop into a time machine and go back into history. Well, this infographic from Dell is both funny and sobering, especially when it comes to the 9,000 human code breakers it took at Bletchly Park during World War II to break the Enigma cypher that “could have been broken with a laptop and a simple Java Script.” We are in the future, jetpacks be damned

Humans and laptops: What could you do with a single laptop in the past?

Back in November, we posted an infographic entitled “Humans vs Laptops – How smart is you computer?” that compared the different skills of humans against computers… the good news is, humans won out. For now!

Continuing in this vein we thought it might be interesting to think about what we could have done with laptops through the ages of time. Would the Mesopotamian scribes have been able to write down more great speeches with a laptop than with a wax tablet? What could the Roman empire have done with computers? And just think about what Leonardo Da Vinci could have accomplished if he’d replaced his paper notebook with the latest laptop deals!

Take a look below at our ideas. What great moments in history do you think could have benefited from access to computers?

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