I love America. I love democracy. I love freedom and capitalism. The biggest lie conservatives tell is to deny this is true among their political opponents. There has never been a time, in my lifetime, when this lie wasn’t told. But democracies make mistakes. We take the easy way out of what seem intractable problems. […]

What the Internet did to words in the first decade of this century, it’s now doing to video. I have been writing about this since 2017. Video is subject to the same crushing economics as music and news stories. The gating factor is time.  My family can afford every streamer out there – Netflix, Amazon, […]

As my new Christmas tradition, I re-watched The Apartment last night. It’s a love story, set in an insurance company’s head office in 1960, around Christmas time. Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray, Billy Wilder’s best film ever, winner of 5 Academy Awards. A great role for Edie Adams, whom history records as Mrs. Ernie […]

When people talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) today, they’re usually talking about replacing journalists, artists, and other office workers with software that writes, draws, or codes. It makes for scary headlines and huge profits on Wall Street. But that’s not where the money is. Not now. I predict Generative AI will enter a “slough of […]

Dan Garber is the most dangerous man in the sports world. He has made Major League Soccer the most dangerous league. It’s not the Saudis with their sportswashing who threaten soccer. They’re paying big money to showcase big names in empty stadiums. It’s Major League Soccer that is on the verge of destroying the beautiful […]

Reporters and analysts have not come to grips with how the Electric Vehicle (EV) revolution is going to go, nor have they thought through its impact. While the Internet and iPhone came on faster, these were internal revolutions. They didn’t change the world around us. Mass EV adoption will. Car repair shops will close. Gas […]

In the past I used Christmas to talk about my family, my career, or the news. But now I’m approaching 70, rapidly. I’ve gained enough perspective to take a longer view, based on life experience. The big lesson of my life is the need for forgiveness. Every generation makes mistakes. Understanding how we got here […]

Generative AI is an evolution from the database computing we’ve been doing for decades. It’s not a revolution. There are two differences between AI and normal database computing: The database that can be accessed is larger and some of it may be public. The output can come in different forms, including pictures, stories, and code.

It’s the best of times. It’s the worst of times. Despite a strong economy, despite some good polls, people of goodwill are as depressed as we’ve ever been. That’s because it’s now understood the world is in a Global Civil War. Whether democracy, capitalism, and liberty can survive is still up in the air at […]

For decades now, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has defined how people write for the Web. At least those who want an audience. With half of all websites (including this one) using WordPress, SEO system Yoast has become a common tool. Its dictates are regularly followed by both writers and editors. But AI is killing SEO. […]