The current administration’s announcement regarding an additional branch of the military leaves me with a few questions. Though investment in space defense also likely implies some reinvestment in space travel and communications […]
Streaming Music
An interesting path to track, when thinking about the impact of technology on our lives, is the music industry. Originally, the only way to hear music was when someone performed it direct […]
Kids These Days
Today is my oldest’s birthday. I’m now the father of a teenager. While I bolt down the furniture and batten down the hatches in preparation for all I’m told that comes with […]
On Free Speech
The major industry leaders that supply user generated content, Google, Facebook, Apple and Spotify, removed Alex Jones and Infowars from there platforms citing violation of policy. Whether or not the removal is […]
Uncommon Narratives on AI
The common path of movies/science fiction literature that include artificial intelligence involves some version of the same personas and plot lines. There’s often a visionary trying to create for the sake of […]
The Inevitability of the Machine
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 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 […]
