Sometimes the wings come off the plane, said Mayor Jacobs, but people will accept that—if they think you’re trying to get to outer space. We were trying to do the right thing. The community was extrao...
Qualcomm is putting these sensor clips on all forty-eight buildings in San Diego. Suddenly the building maintenance guys got converted to data engineers, which is exciting for them, added Tipirneni. T...
Một đất nước nên lo lắng cho về khả năng thiếu công ăn việc làm, hơn là chỉ chăm chăm lo lắng sự mất đi những công ty lâu đời. Điều này nghe có vẻ mâu thuẫn, nhưng thực ra không phải vậy. Nếu sợ rằng...
GE’s lab is like a mini United Nations. Every engineering team looks like one of those multiethnic Benetton ads. But this was not affirmative action at work; it was a brutal meritocracy. When you are...
Every computing device today has five basic components: (1) the integrated circuits that do the computing; (2) the memory units that store and retrieve information; (3) the networking systems that ena...
Consider a New York Times story from April 22, 2014, that reported: Something strange is happening at farms in upstate New York. The cows are milking themselves. Desperate for reliable labor and buoye...
As the world speeds up, stocks of knowledge depreciate at a faster rate.
Andreas Schleicher, who runs the Programme for International Student Assessment exams, a global evaluation of scholastic performance, observed that those scoring highest are Asian countries that have...
All of this weakened the G.O.P.’s foundation and opened the way for an invasive species such as Donald Trump to make deep inroads into its garden.
According to Darwin’s Origin of Species, it is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best...
Said Seidman. When freedom from outstrips freedom to, amplified actors in the grip of destructive ideas will cause more harm and destruction, unless they become inspired and enlisted in constructive h...
Observes the veteran international pollster Craig Charney, that while the Internet improves the ability to connect, it is no substitute for political organizations, culture, or leadership—and spontane...
With the steady drop in the price of renewable energy and efficiency, it now costs the same to destroy the climate or save it, said Harvey. The price is basically the same, but at the micro scale ther...
When you press the pause button on a machine, it stops. But when you press the pause button on human beings they start, argues my friend and teacher Dov Seidman, CEO of LRN, which advises global busin...
When the Web emerged, companies, led by Yahoo, started to organize it for consumers. Yahoo began as a directory of directories. Anytime someone put up a new website, Yahoo would add it to its director...
When Israelis were indirectly involved in the massacre of Palestinians at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut in 1982, the story was front-page news for weeks. When Lebanese Shiites were dir...
When I asked the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, Is God in cyberspace? he joked at first that God must be in cyberspace because every time he is in the London subway, I hear people saying into...
When I arrived at St. Louis Park High in September 1968, I took journalism as a sophomore from our then legendary high school journalism teacher, Hattie M. Steinberg. People often speak about the teac...
When American astronaut Neil Armstrong, a devout Christian, visited Israel after his trip to the moon, he was taken on a tour of the Old City of Jerusalem by Israeli archaeologist Meir Ben-Dov. When t...
What all these stories have in common is that the algorithms were in charge—not people, not ethics, and certainly not God. What all of these stories also have in common is the fact that a number of te...