This week has felt like a fast movie trailer showing what is now, ubiquitous scenes of machine-human iterations. This has been helped along by the fact that: a. I’ve had a lot of actual dreams at night, b. I’ve watched a lot of movie trailers this week – most of them including odd loops of […]

No one can doubt that President Trump is impolite, un-Presidential or even unhinged, whatever those words mean. This is not news to us. It has been proved hundreds of times over during the campaign and after the election. But he is nevertheless, the President. Upon Trump’s characterizations of some geographic entities being “shitholes”, the Resistance […]

Most people probably can’t immediately place the name Winston Smith, but if I say, 1984, suddenly your recall starts to hone it to your high school reading list. Winston was the poor protagonist in the dystopian novel, 1984. His reality has become your reality in recent ‘1984’ news. I’d like to just point out three […]

This is the last installment of commentary of year year change, 2017 to 2018. AI (artificial intelligence) is tech and I could have left it as a paragraph or two within the 4th installment but decided to give it its own special treatment. You’re surrounded by AI. It’s now part of your smart phone, your […]

I don’t have to write this for most people to know that they have a growing distrust of the techy-class. As a trend, the surprising revelation is how quickly it’s consolidated at the end of 2017 and into the new year. I don’t have to bore anyone about their frustrations with Google and Facebook tracking […]

America is in the heat of a huge cultural shift wherein egregious systemic sexual harassment is finally being outed. As of the end of 2017, it peaked and I predict, is ready to morph into something else. On the one hand we’re ready to evolve, on the other, there may be troublesome repercussions. During the […]