by Ai Friendly | Apr 5, 2026 | Culture Wars, Education, History as it applies to the Future
One thing I learned from my, as yet unfinished, road trip excursion is the value of podcasts. I assume everybody is saying, “Duh!” and that I am very late to this discovery. Anyway, I recommend, for one, Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History. A hallmark of Malcolm...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 13, 2026 | Education, Science and Emerging Technology
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...
by Ai Friendly | Feb 5, 2026 | Culture Wars, Education, History as it applies to the Future, Writing for Writers
As soon as the worst of the winter storms blows offshore, I will depart on a Steinbeckian journey up the East Coast in search of some insight and understanding of my great country, America. Even before I crank my ignition, my journey has begun. As it happens, my quest...
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...
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