Music Video: "City of the Future" written and sung by Greg Vanderlaan

https://youtu.be/Q_uh6jWzAfk

(lyrics)

WE ARE LIVING IN THE CITY OF THE FUTURE
ALL OF US HAVE HIGH-TECH JOBS
WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT
THAT ONLY HAPPENS TO LOW TECH SLOBS

BE A NERD ! BE A NED !
BE A HIGH-TECH WIZARD...BE A NERD !

THEY USED TO LAUGH @ ME WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL
THE SOCIAL "IN" SET WAS SO VERY PROUD
BUT NOW THOSE PEOPLE ARE SEARCHING THRU THE WANT ADS
THEY SAY "I WANT TO BE PART OF THE COMPUTER CROWD"

BE A NERD ! BE A NERD !
BE A HIGH-TECH WIZARD...BE A NERD !


I'M ALREADY RICH 'THOUGH I AIN'T EVEN THIRTY
THE COMPUTER AGE HAS EARNED ME A PILE
I WORK WITH MY HANDS BUT I DO NOT GET THEM DIRTY
BECAUSE OIL AND GREASE JUST AIN'T MY STYLE

BE A NERD! BE A NERD!
BE A HIGH TECH WIZARD...BE A NERD!

Great Book: "Bored of the Rings" by Harvard Lampoon (Satire of Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien)

https://www.amazon.com/Bored-Rings-Harvard-Lampoon/dp/B0026XEE6U/

Bored of the Rings is unquestionably a comic masterpiece as well as a brilliant parody of J. R. R.Tolkien's famous The Lord of the Rings trilogy. A gem of irreverence...filled with an incredible menagerie of mad characters including lustful Elf-maidens and a roller-skating dragon. A side-splitting swipe at the Eternal Quest and the castles, wizards, drugs and other folderol of "ancient" lore...

Great Book: "The Wizard and the Prophet" by Charles C. Mann A plan for surviving Global Warming and the Population Bomb.

No matter what Trump and the Climate Change Deniers believe, we are headed for some rough times ahead. By the year 2050 it's predicted that there will be 10 billion people alive... how will we feed them all? OR will we control the population by mass starvation? It's also possible to reduce population by endless war... and/or genetically designed diseases... bio-weapons... Hurricanes and wildfires... However, we ought to create a future for ourselves and our children that does not involve creating I dystopian nightmare world. Ya-Think?

This book studies two main plans for preventing disaster... The Wizards believe that we can invent solutions to our problems and The Prophets believe that by changing our lifestyle/behavior we can save our lives. No doubt we need to do both...

Some simple things we can do to prevent eco-disaster. Use Less Electricity [removing the need for coal fired power plants]... Have fewer children [removing the need for over farming the limited land]... and Drive our cars less [ burning less oil and gas that creates air pollution]...

https://www.amazon.com/Wizard-Prophet-Remarkable-Scientists-Tomorrows/dp/0307961699

The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World. An incisive portrait of the two little-known twentieth-century scientists, Norman Borlaug and William Vogt, whose diametrically opposed views shaped our ideas about the environment, laying the groundwork for how people in the twenty-first century will choose to live in tomorrow's world.

Norman Borlaug: Agricultural Scientist that invented wheat that produced vastly more food per acre. The Green Revolution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug

William Vogt was an ecologist interested in population control and author of "Road to Survival"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Vogt

According to Charles C. Mann, "Vogt...laid out the basic ideas for the modern environmental movement. In particular, what is called 'apocalyptic environmentalism'—the belief that unless humankind drastically reduces consumption and limits population, it will ravage global ecosystems.