As long as we’ve been making computers, we’ve been trying to make them beat us at chess. That sounds like an odd thing to do with a computer out of all possible […]
The Inevitability of the Machine
Can I Still Say That?
White, conservative and still deeply frustrated by the death of Philando Castile. #philando
To The Fightin’ Fitz
We don’t write books or make movies about the men and women who drive ships any more. But maybe we should.
The Hard Problem
Within the first few pages of the second to last chapter of the important book Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future by MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito and Northeastern University’s Jeff […]
The Tragedy of Politics
There’s an inherent human need to look to the past and connect it with what we’re seeing around us. We seek to anchor the new that we see to something more comfortable. […]
The Marital Bliss of Green Politics
Nothing so much reminds me of the bickering of a dysfunctional married couple than environmental politics. He does something wrong. She points it out. He refuses to acknowledge it. Over time the […]
The Extreme Analogue
The world is full of extreme analogues, those things that are like us, but more extreme. If you’re smart, you can figure out how to use them. We use them all the […]
