Senior’s Guide to Caring About Cosmic Nonsense** I read a lot. And I read about a lot of different things. Most of my time is spent with mystery and suspense, but every so often I take a break from fictional detectives and wander into real topics—economics and finance, technology (AI and robotics have been my…
Sometimes life reminds you — much too often — that our circle of friends isn’t as large as it used to be. In the past few weeks, I’ve been invited to too many celebrations of life and have been informed of others who have left us. I know many of you have had similar experiences….
PART III When Influence Becomes Identity, and Identity Becomes Power If Part I was about what AI gives us, and Part II about what we gradually surrender, Part III is about the moment we may never be able to reverse—the point where the tools we built stop feeling like tools. Not because they rebel.Not because…
Part II The Drift Toward Dependence and the Emerging Risks of AI If Part I was the story of what AI gives us, Part II is the story of what we slowly give up. Changes rarely arrive all at once. Technology doesn’t steal our abilities in broad daylight. Instead, it erodes them in quiet, unremarkable…
The Promise of AI: More Capability, More Opportunity, and a Second Chance for Everyone Alan Turing once asked whether a machine could think.The question of our time is different: Can a machine be good? Before we wrestle with that, we need to look squarely at what AI is already doing—and why, for millions of people,…
This article in Forbes is by a colleague of mine from the days at the PwC Technology Center some 25 to 30 years ago. The Tech Centre was comprised of a group of really smart people who looked at the implications of emerging technology and published there assessments to number of industry executives. Dr. Reichental…
Barcelona’s Sagrada Família, Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished masterpiece, has just claimed a new distinction — it is now the tallest church in the world, surpassing Germany’s Ulmer Münster. More than 140 years after its foundations were laid, the basilica still isn’t finished, but that’s part of its magic. Every year, new towers rise, new windows bloom…
Nights may be bringing frost, but days still offer sunny afternoons for outdoor chores. Learn what you should be doing in the garden in November. Plant Spring Bulbs By this point in the season, look for spring bulbs being sold at a discount. Look for bulbs that are firm to the touch with no signs…
By Yogiwan (Terry Retter) Bitcoin started as a hacker’s dream and a banker’s nightmare. Fifteen years later, it’s rewriting the rules of money itself—faster, borderless, and occasionally lawless. When I first read about Bitcoin and blockchain It sounded like a hacker’s dream and a banker’s nightmare — a clever piece of math that could move…
