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NEW PRESENTATION VIDEO: Technology Reshaping Society… By Disabling Government

October 15, 2018 brandonferdig Law, Government, Politics, Society, Technology

How Do We Address Issues Like Guns and Drugs, When the Government is Losing Its Power to Control Them? This[…]

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3D-Printed Guns, Weakening Government, and Our Need to Step Up (*New Video)

August 2, 2018 brandonferdig Politics, Society, Technology

3D-printed guns are in the headlines, but they represent just one of many technologies challenging the capabilities of the government[…]

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What Cuba Taught Me About Modern Society – My Story in Today’s Minneapolis Star Tribune

June 3, 2018 brandonferdig Society, Technology, Travel

Out today in the Minneapolis Star Tribune: my story reflecting back on Cuba and what she revealed about the role[…]

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Grandma and Grandson Try Virtual Reality

April 22, 2018 brandonferdig Family & Parenting, Technology

The future looks very different through the eyes of different generations. A grandma trying out virtual realty for the first[…]

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“The U.S. Is Like an Old Man”: A Chinese PhD Student Shares Her Thoughts on America–And China

January 8, 2017 brandonferdig Culture, Society

Xi (Cassie) Guo is an international student at the University of Minnesota. In the lab, she studies diseases. Outside of[…]

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How Government and Corporations Block Growth and Truth in the Twin Cities

December 16, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

The book Why Nations Fail describes the process of how countries either stagnate, devolve, or prosper. The answers, the book claims,[…]

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Mail Order Heroin

September 24, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

I once talked to a former drug addict who was a roadie for a rock-n-roll band. He shared about getting[…]

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False Prognostication

September 4, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

I recently read how when the Twitter guys were first starting out many people told them, “That’ll never catch on.”[…]

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North Dakota Drones

August 21, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

Because they’ve been the vehicle for a lot of bad news and have become a symbol for government overreach, I’m[…]

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The Internet and the U.S. Government

June 10, 2013 brandonferdig Uncategorized

With every new technology comes the potential for either good or evil. How will the U.S. government’s use of digital[…]

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