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Over the last year I’ve denigrated generalized AIs like ChatGPT. I think their promises, and threats, are both overdone, certainly...

What the Internet did to words in the first decade of this century, it’s now doing to video. I have...

In the past I used Christmas to talk about my family, my career, or the news. But now I’m approaching...

Recently a development officer from my alma mater, the Medill School at Northwestern University, came by my house to visit....

The big story of 2023 isn’t ChatGPT. It’s the world tech leaders (like this doofus) say they’ve prepared for our...

Everyone and Dolly Parton is afraid of Big AI  programs that can replace people. But even Little AI programs can be...

I last published an update to my book on Moore’s Law in 2021.  Bad news. It’s obsolete. I didn’t do...

Kariko was demoted in 1995 because, her colleagues insisted, mRNA could not be turned into therapies.

This process of adaptation is happening even faster today than it did in the 2000s, or in the 1980s. We’re...

I have been using the Internet since moving into our present house 40 years ago. It doesn’t seem that long....