Hey kids, it’s soapbox time in Silly Valley. I feel it coming, yes I do. Maybe not an epic rant but, well, we’ll just play it one outburst at a time. Anyhow, I’m all amped up about some rampant BS that’s been driving me bananas for years. For as[…] Read On
Neuralink, Elon Musk’s brain-computer interface startup, just revealed a system it hopes to start testing on humans next year. Think about it. Surgically implanting thousands of electrodes so your brain can connect directly to the internet through a high-bandwidth USB-C port. Sure. Sign me up. I mean, what could possibly[…] Read On
AI. Smart machines. Smart everything. It’s all I hear about. In reality, machines aren’t nearly as smart as the media hype makes them out to be. Take robot vacuums. Everything you read makes it sound like they take all the hassle out of house cleaning. Just buy them, download the[…] Read On
I was just thinking about 1984. The book, not the year. Orwell’s fear that Big Brother would turn us all into regimented clones turned out to be unfounded. Don’t get me wrong. We do live in an Orwellian dystopia. The sad irony is that we didn’t need Big Government to[…] Read On
So much for a business-friendly White House. The feds are going after big-tech over antitrust concerns. The DOJ will take on Apple and Google while the FTC investigates Amazon and Facebook. Is it just me or does that sound a lot like the Mafia carving up old Manhattan? Conspicuous is[…] Read On
This FOX Business column, “Don’t Buy an Electric Car,” got a lot of attention back in 2013, and not all the good kind. Thought it’d be fun to revisit and see how it’s holding up, what’s changed, yada yada. You be the judge. I live in California, home to all[…] Read On
When a crime is allegedly committed one of the first things police do is check video footage to try to identify the perpetrator. If they succeed in getting a good image, they now have a pretty good chance of IDing the perp, courtesy off big improvements in facial recognition technology[…] Read On