As I read an article in the New York Times about how the screen of our smartphones is addictive and consumes our attention. And journalist Nellie Bowles tried to switch her iPhone screen to grayscale. Apparently, this lowers your “enthusiasm” for using your phone...
I read an article by Zeynep Tufekci (False Promise) in Wired (July 27, 2019) stating the Internet is a low-trust society where you are on guard all the time. I’m sure this wasn’t part of Sir Tim Berners-Lee dream. A society is a group of people with a...
“…here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads.” (Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave”)...
Even if we become more mindful and begin paying greater attention, how do we know we’re paying attention to what matters? And how do we decide what matters most? We are the cosmos self-awareness and added another level of complexity to the biosphere with the...
The news broke out about how a group of researchers from the University of California was able to devise an algorithm allowing an AI to solve Rubik’s cube. And? I understand the point of this research. It allows us to find the solution for problems with multiple...
