AI for Education
Josh Tyrangiel figuratively divides most of us based on our reactions to the advent of AI Technology: Accelerationists or Doomers. Accelerationists push for unbridled AI usage. Doomers foretell of AI’s destruction of all that we humans value. The truth, of course,...
AI Derangement Syndrome
I don’t use Generative AI to do my creative writing or my thinking about what I should write. I don’t use Generative AI at all! To make my personal stance on AI clear, if you do use Generative AI in those ways, you should burn in Hell! That’s In My Opinion. Putting...
Work Force Reduction
AI represents a very real existential threat to our current way of life, but the benefits of AI will outweigh the problems, unless, of course, you are the one being replaced. The AI dynamic has two facets: AI displacement—where AI takes jobs from humans outright, and...
Something Big is Coming
AI will eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within one to five years. Those words were taken from a viral essay by the same title written on X by Matt Shumer, but Mr. Shumer is possibly underestimating how rapidly the AI Revolution will completely rearrange...
Black Holes
Black holes were foreseen in 1783, John Michell postulated that an invisible star could be massive enough to trap light, so called Dark Stars. The idea, expressed only in a Royal Society letter, remained largely unconsidered for a decade. In 1798, Henry Cavendish,...
Breaking The Great Silence
Cosmologists often speak of The Great Silence. If the prospects for extraterrestrial life are so high in the vastness of the Universe, why aren’t we hearing anything from any of our neighbors? At the risk of sounding an unwarranted note of paranoia, it is possible our...
The Vast Unknown
In olden days, the oceans were the vast unknowns. But gradually, we have come to realize that all the oceans are really just one large Sea with which we are becoming more and more familiar. So, in our never-ending quest to know the unknown, we have also turned our...
Future Net
Did you know that Abraham Lincoln established the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 1863? In 2008, the NAS founded the Science and Entertainment Exchange. The NAS’s involvement helps ensure fiction that educates, inspires, and predicts the future of our...
The Great Filter
In the 1990’s the economist and futurist Robin Hanson coined the phrase The Great Filter as a speculative answer to the Fermi Paradox, the apparent contradiction between the high probability of extraterrestrial civilizations existing in our vast universe and the...
Sentience and Sapience
The debate about the future of Digitized Intelligence often incorrectly centers on the question of Sentience. For the record, Sentience is defined in terms of feelings, perceptions, and emotions, attributes that even the lowliest of animals demonstrably have and that...