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Gordon Lightfoot
Subscribe now This old airport’s got me down It’s no earthly good to me I’m stuck here on the ground As cold and drunk as I can be You can’t jump a jet plane Like you can a freight train So I best be on my
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Political Science
Subscribe now Science is inherently political. This is not meant in anyway to degrade science, but reveals a most desperate need to reform politics by incorporating science into politics, while simultaneously developing an understanding of the politics of science. The other day some of our Tech Priests were evangelizing a
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MO' MONEY -- MO' MONEY -- MO' MONEY
MO’ MONEY — MO’ MONEY — MO’ MONEY A lovely Sunday Spring Morning Sisters and Brothers, I can report the last Board Meeting of Life in the 21st Century was a rollicking and not very pleasant affair. The Board cast more than few disparaging comments and I can relay they wanted to
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Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?
Subscribe now History is the medium of politics. Without knowledge of history, politics becomes untethered, suspect, of little worth. History will never be a science as it cannot be reset and repeated to prove any given theory. It's impenetrable to the scientific method, the very process that created
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A quick wallow in the swamp
Subscribe now I apologize about this, first and foremost to myself. I try very hard not to comment on the politics that be. I’m not getting anywhere near enough money to express any opinion on such matters. But sometimes I can’t help myself, especially in regards to truly
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ExxonMobil: Paper Tiger
Subscribe now No corporation better represented 20th century industrialism than ExxonMobil. Birthed from the breakup of the Standard Oil Trust, Exxon had previously been Standard Oil of New Jersey, the seat of John D. Rockefeller’s oil empire. Exxon emerged from the breakup as the world's largest oil
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Artificial Intelligence (III)
Please become a paid subscriber. Continued from Artificial Intelligence (II) From information technology's brief history, it can be concluded this new generation of technology, valued exclusively by established industrial economic worth, will continue along these same worn paths at an ever accelerated pace. However, just as concerning is
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Artificial Intelligence (II)
Please become a paid subscriber. Continued from Artificial Intelligence (I) One thing we should all have learned over the last half-century is to be particularly wary of Valley crusaders of any stripe. Like all Valley heroes, Mr. Altman made buckets of money, then turned to help mankind. Most Valley heroes,
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Artificial Intelligence (I)
Subscribe now When I was sophomore in high school, we went on a trip to University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. U of I was a computer school with a top of the line mainframe. You'd sit in a room with a couple rows of ten or so terminals networked
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Power, Cyberspace, and Democracy
Subscribe now Written September 1, 1995 Can a revolution occur with no discussion of power? This was the question that nagged me as I drove through the mountains out of Aspen having just attended a conference called “Cyberspace and the American Dream.” Participating in the conference were many figures of
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Chicago, Now!
Subscribe now Do you work hard? You don’t Chicago, now There's a mayoral election in Chicago today. Four decades ago, voter turnout for a mayoral election used to be significantly above presidential elections. That's changed. Today, about a third of registered voters will participate, pretty
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The Land Ethic and Politics of Technology
Subscribe now Aldo Leopold was one of the first ecologists. Environment and ecology are terms used synonymously, however environment is a more encompassing term, dealing with all physical aspects of any given surrounding. Ecology defines the systemic interactions of biological organisms within a larger environment. Characteristics of any ecological system