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Few news stories of 2023 were as misunderstood as the insanity at OpenAI.  First. There was always a contradiction inside...

Decades ago, when I first moved to Atlanta’s Kirkwood, it was a poor neighborhood. But I found several small grocery...

The events of the weekend at OpenAI remind me of an African coup. And countercoup. UPDATE: The Countercoup also failed....

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

We think of technology as improving productivity on the bleeding edge of change. That means everyone today is focused on...

The best thing you can do for your health and the planet today is get an electric bike. There are...

The Internet reflects the world. The world is getting its war on. Netizens whom I’ve always taken to be serious...

I’m no foreign policy expert. Nor am I willing to foist my prejudices about the Middle East on you. They’re...

Almost 15 years ago, I published a piece here called The Obama Thesis of Consensus. I believed the 2008 election...

Four years ago, when I first wrote about tech trends for the 2020s, it was clear that more than the...