Monday, April 29, 2019

If Democracy Requires Critical Thinking, Are We Doomed?

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Ukraine just elected a comedian as its president. A reality TV character holds the most powerful office on the planet. Talk show hosts are d...
Monday, April 22, 2019

According to the World Health Organization, Superbugs are a Greater Health Threat Than Climate Change

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Sometimes the personal is professional. It’s not all that common when our work and our survival is linked inexorably together. They are, in ...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Remembered Past vs. The Real Past

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Old songs, like old memories, are the purveyors of a kind of double imagery. Triggers of thought that somehow short circuit time and make ...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Why Coders Matter and Why They Control Our Future

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Think of the millions of hours we spend thinking and talking about technology. About the future, what it all means, and how it impacts us. ...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Who We Connect With Impacts Who We Become, and Who We Become Impacts Who We Connect With

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Several years ago, the tech company Cisco ran an ad campaign talking about the “human network.” It tried to humanize their networking produ...

The Brave New World of Immunotherapy

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It’s hard to believe today, but leaching was once considered a legitimate and effective medical practice. Years from now, we may look back u...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Should We Negotiate With Hostage Takers?

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In a world that is increasingly more authoritarian, in a political atmosphere that is more and more polarized and tribal everywhere, the thr...
Monday, March 25, 2019

Brave, Not Perfect

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A couple of years ago, Senator Elizabeth Warren made headlines with the phrase “nevertheless she persisted.” Sheryl Sandberg told women they...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

How Our Lives Are Being Run By Algorithms: From the 737 to Our Daily Commute

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When Hal asked Astronaut David Bowman to “open the pod bay doors,” it was as if our most primal fear of machines came rushing headlong into ...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Facebook and Zuckerberg Not Only Screwed Up Reality..They Even Screwed Up Virtual Reality: The Story of Palmer Luckey and Oculus

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When we talk about the broad swath of technology and its progenitors in Silicon Valley rarely are we talking about great breakthroughs. A n...
Sunday, March 3, 2019

How Our Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved

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How many times a day do you hear or read someone opining on what’s wrong with America and American politics? As is too often the case we lov...
Friday, March 1, 2019

A Look at Everything that Ivanka Trump Will Never Understand About Working People in America

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As underemployment grows and many who once seemed solidly middle-class are losing their economic foothold, the working class is getting larg...
Monday, February 25, 2019

The History of our Future: A Conversation with Former FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler

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We’ve talked before about those frightening four words heard all too often. “This time it’s different.” Perhaps, besides Wall Street, nowh...
Friday, February 22, 2019

The Future is Asian

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The 19th century has often been referred to as the imperial or British century. The period, after WWII was, in words coined by Henry Luce, ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

If You Spend Hours Watching Cable News, You Are Just A Political Hobbyist

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Partly as a result of 24/7 cable news and its unending political coverage, politics today is simply another form of entertainment. A specta...

Patriarchy in the Me Too Era: A conversation with Carol Gilligan

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We live in an age of extremes. We talk about it every day with respect to the economic divide, the political divide, the racial divide, and...
Monday, February 18, 2019

When Did We Start This "Division Thing?"

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We wonder why millennials are different. Imagine growing up in our current highly partisan, polarized political environment, and not knowing...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

What If The Solution to Fix Democracy is Actually Less Democracy

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According to a report just released by Freedom House, a watchdog group that advocates for democracy, political rights, and civil liberties b...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Why We Need Special Prosecutors....It's Not For Harassment

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Ken Starr, Archibald Cox, Leon Jaworski, Lawrence Walsh, and Robert Mueller. These names are almost as familiar as the Presidents they inve...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Philip Johnson and the Politics of Architecture, the Architecture of Politics

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In an era in which everything it politicized, from the TV shows and the movies we watch to the places we shop, it’s not surprising that arch...