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4 Acronyms to Challenge Our Thinking

    Photo by Pixabay on aPexels.com 4 Acronyms to Challenge Our Thinking and Prevent Absorption by Artificial Intelligence (AI) WIIFM —  What’s In It For Me? WIIFU — What’s In It For Us?   WYSIWYG — What You See Is What You Get WYSIATI — What You See Is All There Is  A thought piece by Kathryn Atkins […]

Tesla Motors, Autopilot Cars, You, Me, and Them

  For starters, if you want to find out more about Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of Tesla Motors, head over to the TED Talk for a recent interview. Otherwise, stand back to witness the future unfold before your very eyes.   I hear you from all the way over here in my blog […]

IBM makes a movie!

Did you read that IBM has made a movie? It’s called “A Boy and His Atom” and it’s a 90-second tribute to science, creativity,  and (re)invention. IBM was the lumbering pachyderm star from the book Who Says Elephants Can’t Dance by Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. written over eleven years ago now. The book was a […]

Artificial Body Parts: My RACE TO DIE

 From the front page of the WSJ today, March 23, 2013, I was jolted into a sense of my own immortality. The title: “Science Fiction Comes Alive As Researchers Grow Organs in Lab.” While most people would think this an exciting advancement, it scares the holy crap out of me. It’s not because of the […]