Responsible Innovation

According to USA Today, downtown Las Vegas was "packed" as it reopened the other night. Market Watch is reporting that "American Airlines stock jumps after 'steady' rise in demand leads to increased flying," and CNET is reporting that CES 2021 (January 6-9, Las Vegas) is in the works as both a physical and a virtual event. Continue Reading →

Politicians, pundits, and professionals are all doing their best to “tell us” what we should do and how we should do it. As you know, I believe in science, so I have been sheltering in place for more than a month (because I am lucky enough to have a choice). However, my self-imposed, then government-suggested, Continue Reading →

We have entered the age of personalized politics, and it is very important for us to understand what that means. In practice, there are as many candidates in the 2020 presidential race as there are voters with online access in the United States. Every candidate is a customized persona created specifically for us by a complex set of algorithms that very few people fully understand. This means we are all test subjects in an unprecedented sociopolitical experiment that, quite frankly, scares the hell out of me. Continue Reading →

Arthur C. Clarke once said, “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” Can you imagine seeing a technology and completely misunderstanding what it was doing and how it might work? Continue Reading →

Our technological evolution is happening faster than most people ever imagined, and it is clearly happening faster than society is able to deal with it. How should we respond? Continue Reading →