Another ominous analogy, less rooted in Victorian fiction:A Self-Driving Car. I’ve asked several people if they would be willing to completely cede control to a self-driving car, spending their mornings in the car reading the paper, preparing for class, talking with their kids, and letting ...
I’ve asked several people if they would be willing to completely cede control to a self-driving car, spending their mornings in the car reading the paper, preparing for class, talking with their kids, and letting the Artificial Intelligence handle the driving. Everybody has balked at that id...
Some of these new words and phrases may evoke the specter of loneliness, and some of these place names may draw a momentary infamy they never asked for, but this is how we, as a society, develop a common relationship to our new, uncommon conditions. Even in the best of times, much of...
meaning that I can't regularly pound through hundreds of pages of nonfiction (interspersed with hundreds of pages of fiction reading as a palate cleanser) the way I used to.I also ran for my local city council, which was a super funny experience (well, funny sad, in that...
“Jingle Bells”:This timeless classic is a staple in children’s Christmas songs. Its joyful tune and simple lyrics make it easy for kids to sing along and get into the holiday spirit. “Frosty the Snowman”:This cheerful song tells the story of a magical snowman who comes to life. It...
that her kids won't touch any processed stuff since they'd had farm market food. I wanted to clock her. My children have had farm market food since birth and they would gladly give it all up for a steady supply of Welch's fruit snacks (or kiddie crack, as we call them around here...
We are creating a self-learning machine which at its prime will become the reflection or rather, the magnification of the cumulative human traits that created it. To ensure they're good obedient kids, we're going to use intimidation through algorithms of punishments and rewards and mechanisms of...
get her for dinner before we were done, and she balked until I assured her the kids and I would come back afterward. We dutifully arrived to finish our game an hour or so later to find that Gramma had smuggled cookies for us from the dining room. I never knew she could be so ...
Well… I just bought a vehicle, but it’s for a tour company I’m starting Neil you have ridden bikes everyone ever since your kids were little Sarah Gilbert I haven’t had a personal vehicle since 2006! Neil don’t tell me it is a gas guzzzling SUV ...
Silly, Rupert, New Media is for hip kids.But, the beautiful world of blogging Brown alumni opining on global warming and Maya Angelous contributions to literature while their conservative brethren blog on banks and hedge funds may be in for a shock to its modern sensibilities. There may be ...