Category: TechKnowledgey

Technology is really about new knowledge. And new knowledge can benefit all of humankind.

We Have to Change Course.

Dr. Jonathan Slotkin, a neurosurgeon, recently posted an opinion piece in the New York Times entitled “The Data on Self-Driving Cars Is Clear. We Have to Change Course.” His first paragraph is reproduced below. I recently got called to see a teenager ejected in a rollover car crash. The trauma team rushed him into surgery to stop major abdominal bleeding,… Read more →

AI, IM and SSA

No doubt when your news feeds have not been focused on domestic polemics, Canadian wildfires, unusual flooding, record setting heat, or Taylor Swift’s latest tour you have noticed that artificial intelligence (AI) is getting some attention. Of course, AI has been a discussion topic for decades – I first wrote about it in this blog almost ten years ago –… Read more →