“What I am interested in is that moment of transcendence, where one is transported into another place, into a perfect, still world.“ -Gregory Crewdson The scenes are laborious to capture, but one glance and you are captive to the questions provoked by the details. 1,000 stories spring to mind, but the more you look the […]
Do you really want to know how unnecessarily bad traffic flow in North America actually is? I discovered there’s a name for the thing I loathe, THE STROAD. As we go about rebuilding infrastructure we should take a minute to reflect on the intended and unintended consequences of the highways system so we can do […]
Beowolf was written at a crossroads between ages. The characters in the poem straddle both pagan and christian values and struggle with their inconsistencies. It was a product of ages of dynamic oral storytelling translated into a medium that while more permanent, ceased to be as meaningful to later generations. Verbal lore could be adapted […]
Do you fully trust a teenager? Should you? Doesn’t it all depend on Trust? We have some big questions that we need to grapple with, most urgently the relationship between humankind and work. As much as everyone is concerned with their own livelihood and the challenges of automation, the question of defining consciousness is not […]
To maintain perspective, everyday I expose myself to the latest images and insights into the cosmos from JPL, NASA, ESA, and soon the CNSA. The solar system is very active! Our understanding and sensory capability is expanding everyday. Understanding the cosmos is more critical to understanding the moments of human activities than most are comfortable […]
How about we build a giant machine based around the best aspects of our technologies and program it favor ALL of NATURE rather than simply the human paradigm alone? One of my takeaways from WestWorld is realizing that Maeve should be our aim as we work to create artificial life. Her story warns us that […]
When I found out yesterday I just couldn’t process. It wasn’t until I got home that it hit me. I fell against the wall and bawlled as if I’d lost my favorite uncle. I never met Robin Williams but my whole life is entangled with his work. Short, funny, & furry.. from a very early […]
As I’ve been preening my blog here I notice it reflects a greater pattern I’ve observed on social networks. The Internet just rarely gets the whole story. Through omission, laziness, inconsistency, or distraction it is impossible for the Internet to present a complete picture. We love to think that all these logs and data record […]
Daniel Pink is brilliant at communicating the passions of inventive people. I loved his book “A Whole New Mind,” if only more business leaders would pay attention to his ideas. The changes he begs us to make are surprisingly easy and relatively painless but there are status and ego barriers at risk. I do […]