Storms vs Droids

Hurricane Sandy will affect tens of millions of people in the east coast of US.

Storms and hurricanes are the forces of nature that people can't match.
Will there be a time where the storm can be controlled? Can someone send a drone to the eye of the storm and reverse the spinning so it will cancel it out?
Will the people be able to harness the power of the storm and make it into a useable energy instead of a destructive force? What if we can convert this energy to a useable form - maybe one storm will be enough to power a nation for the whole year? Or maybe more?

A research on how to control, harness, and develop this kind of energy is great! And it is also risky - to the point that a person can control a vast energy - its a national security.

Are we getting dumber OR the computer just too powerful for us?

When I saw Windows 8 and the surface, I ask my self " Are we getting to a point where the computer is just too powerful for us?"

Back then in late 90's the processor speed are measured in term of mega hertz. Now it is measured in giga hertz and even the number of cores for us to choose from. From that moment in the 90's to some point in 2010, I can say that we achieve what we have achieved in terms of the power of computing in everyday life. 

Ordinary people don't play games and yet they want to most powerful computer they can buy - but seldom use the intended power of that computing machine to its fullest. 

When some company release a retina display -  the geeks are scrambling on reviews on how vibrant and how the pixels are… but some people forget that some are just as good as it was for the intended purpose.

What do ordinary people do in their computer? surf the web, make some transactions online, maybe social networking like facebook and google +.

ask your self. Do you really need a quad core or the six core products just to surf the web?

"Are we getting dumber or the computer is just too powerful for us?"