Complex systems, individual and networked dependencies on technology, and an increasingly connected world have both expanded our potential and our vulnerability. Our lives, both functionally and socially, have become hopelessly intertwined with a series of systems that operate both outside us, in a global information network, and inside our lives and homes, as a life convenience. Artificial intelligence [...]
I am not really sure how Cheyenne and I paused long enough in our channel flipping last night to have a Wife Swap episode catch our attention, but it happened. I typically do my level best to avoid shows like that. They are so predictable. They are designed to produce uncomfortable conflict and awkward growth. I [...]
Hello folks...have you met the USA PATRIOT Act? You may recall it as the sweeping piece of legislation passed about a month after the attacks on 9/11. The Act is so voluminous that it is said no legislator read it in its entirety before it was passed with virtually no discussion or debate. It all [...]
Facebook - the new frontier. Well, relatively new for those who are in the new forty. By young folks' standards Facebook has almost always been around (how frightening is that notion for folks who have a handful of decades in?). 😉 I came upon Facebook a number of years ago. In the beginning, I visited my Facebook [...]
THE NEW FORTY 