Internet of Schmoid

Last week, Elon Musk again warned against Killer Robots .  This time, instead of just him on stage , he got 115 of his closest friends (real...

Over the past week or so, there has been an increase in interest in Universal Basic Income (UBI).  A couple more of the tech elite have adde...

This last week, a couple of news items knocked me out of the stratosphere of the post-work society and back to reality.  That is because bot...

I like my virtual assistants, be they "Hey, Google" or Alexa.  (I've not owned an Apple product since long before Siri.  As fo...

Recently, I had (and took) the opportunity to go on a big ship cruise.  This is not something that I had ever thought that I would do.  But ...

A few weeks ago, the Emmy Award nominations were announced.  Normally, this is an event that I ignore with great abandon.  However, it appe...

Over the past months, I've written quite a bit about how automation, driven by an Artificial Intelligence (or three), will take our jobs...