What are people best suited for?
Perfection is one step away from extinction.
Articles Tagged with social effects of technology
Disaster this time?
Threatening technology
New technology has been forecast to bring social disaster several times in the past. We seem to have avoided it; but that doesn’t mean we always will.
Non-spectacular spectacles
Seeing astronomical events
A total solar eclipse is an amazing spectacle. You might not even notice other astronomical events.
A modern irritation
Machine learning
Trained by our machines
Our chief consultant realizes how effective our machines have been at training us to perform tasks efficiently and exactly.
Greece vs. Bablylon
Two kinds of mathematics
Mathematics, at almost any level, can be either practical or ideal. Problems arise when the two kinds are confused.
Junk mail
Making things easy
New technology often makes a task much easier to do. That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s done better.
School’s out
Consider the horse
A sudden obsolescence
The most momentous event of the twentieth century, as seen from the standpoint of human history, seems to have gone mostly unnoticed.
A surfeit of features
No one uses them all
Digital cameras, like calculators, have an immense menu of features. It’s certainly rare, and possibly unknown, for anyone to use them all. Why have them, then?