Current Affairs

Whenever I look at Donald Trump I think of my dad. Like Trump, my dad was outwardly intimidating, and inwardly...

After three weeks in the Netherlands, I am finally figuring out the difference between fietsing and cycling. In my life...

There’s a familiar metallic roar disturbing the peace of the Netherland’s bike paths. It’s the sound of gas-powered motorcycles. They’re...

The test of democracy doesn’t occur when a candidate promises to do monstrous things. It doesn’t even come when the...

I rode a Swapfiets bike from Maarssen to a meeting in Amsterdam yesterday, as an experiment. The result was not...

I came to the Netherlands to gather material for a book on e-transport. The book is changing as I write...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQwt7s7ZOA This is the question Ray Liotta asks Kevin Costner’s character in the movie Field of Dreams. Costner’s response, “No,...

Arguments about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have become almost religious in nature. They shouldn’t be. It’s not a question of...

Two men currently dominate American technology, Elon Musk and Sam Altman. They’re going down. Musk took his eye off the...

I took one last spin through my hometown this weekend, before my coming trip to the Netherlands. I learned a...