The Four Questions
Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live. –Tom Wolfe
thinkhuman
by James Gill
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Chrome Bumpers
Technology doesn’t just do things for us. It does things to us, changing not just what we do but who we are. –Sherry Turkle
AI, AI…Oh
Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. –R. Buckminster Fuller
Judgment Calls
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life. –Albert Schweitzer
Dis-Incorporating
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. –Steve Jobs
Leaving Twitter
A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. —Ronald Knox
General Specialist
The future masters of technology will have to be light-hearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb. –Marshall McLuhan, 1967
Don’t Worry About College Majors
I’ve heard a lot recently about ‘picking the right college major’. It’s normal to worry about such things. I remember.
Gentrification’s Wheel
Gentrification is complex. Many say it’s better than the alternative. In many American cities, “blighted” areas are redeveloped or otherwise transformed, often with significant help from local government. Rarely do citizens spontaneously change the makeup of a neighborhood; it’s an act imposed from outside, using money and (sometimes) good intentions.
At First Light
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. –Ralph Waldo Emerson