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June 29, 2022 by

How Europe Stole Christmas and Promoted Snow

The Grinch didn’t steal Christmas. Europe did. Filched it, packed it up and moved it north, where it snows. In this wholesale looting of the world’s greatest holiday, the U.S., Canada and some other non-European northern habitats were also complicit. I grew up in the Southern Hemisphere in faraway Zimbabwe — then called Southern Rhodesia, […]

Anatomy of a Utility: How CPS Energy Is Getting Ahead of Challenges Facing U.S. Utilities

Llewellyn King

CPS Energy, which serves San Antonio and surrounding areas, as one observer said, “has gotten out in front of its problems.” So much so that the utility, the nation’s largest gas and electric municipal power company, with nearly 400,000 gas customers and over 970,000 electric customers, has become something of a model for other utilities. […]

The Robots Are Coming — Sooner Than You Think

Llewellyn King

The next big thing is robots. They are, you might say, on the move. Within five years, robots will be doing a lot of things that people now do. Simple repetitive work, for example, is doomed. Already, robots weld, bolt and paint cars and trucks. The factory of the future will have very few human […]

The Billionaires Will Rule Down Through the Generations

Llewellyn King

Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book “Careless People” takes aim at Facebook (parent company Meta) and tells a tale of its potentate, Mark Zuckerberg, as a man who is sought after by the great and the powerful and who lacks social consciousness or real interest in anything beyond himself and his company. Wynn-Williams is the New Zealander who […]