In the early 2000s, my job was to find and share answers to hard questions fast. Here’s what that experience taught me about how humans know, why we need to keep thinking together, and when we’re better than any artificial intelligence.
Tag: technology
What AI Will Never Know About Ice Cream, June 1981, and Everything Before or Since
Despite regular claims to the contrary, AI Does Not Have Access to All of Human Knowledge — and It Never Will
Public Discourse in a Peekaboo World
All that glistens isn’t necessarily good During a recent vacation, I re-read Neil Postman’s classic of media criticism, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. I found it remarkably relevant on multiple fronts, especially regarding a challenge we all grapple with daily: the deluge of disconnected, decontextualized information. I would …
Does the Data Really Know?
We increasingly expect “the data” to guide us. But what do they really know?
How Small Is “Nano” Small?
You probably know that nanotechnology operates at very small scales. But just how small is “nano” small? Let's look for a little perspective.
Two Cheers for the Old Home Phone
Telephones used to be attached to walls and transmit only voices. In some ways, that was better.
