by Ai Friendly | Sep 25, 2025 | Culture Wars, Education
We all live inside an amorphous and sometimes conflicting cloud of opinion of our own making. People rarely change their opinions, and we are usually making a mistake when we set out to change one. People hold tight to their opinions and often will defend those...
by Ai Friendly | Jul 8, 2025 | Education, Science and Emerging Technology
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...
by Ai Friendly | Jun 6, 2025 | Culture Wars, Education, History as it applies to the Future, Politcal Parties, Politics
In 1960, John Steinbeck decided he wanted to tour America. He packed a few essentials and his dog, Charley, into a camper he had named Rocinante, after Don Quixote’s horse. Why did he go? A skeptic might answer that he was a writer, and, by natural inclination, went...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 26, 2025 | Education, Politics
Elon Musk knows how to do political theater, but the intended rhetorical message is way off base. Yes, the government in my beloved country, America, is wasteful and inefficient, but the chainsaw approach is the wrong idea. You don’t fix the plane with a chainsaw when...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 26, 2024 | Education, History as it applies to the Future, Science and Emerging Technology
A lot of the information below comes from EarthSky.org. What follows is from my extremely limited and non-scientific perspective. Today’s eighth grader is learning things about which I am only vaguely aware. Here’s what I know: The ancient Greeks had various ideas on...
by Ai Friendly | Oct 31, 2018 | Education, Politcal Parties, Politics, Witty Repartee on any topic
The One Question Quiz: Below you will find four distinct sets of political statements/opinions. Each group of statements is meant to be representative of a distinct group of American voters. Therefore, the four sets of statements are theoretical Party Platforms for...
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