I am a fan of Apple Computer and its charismatic co-founder, Steve Jobs. Apple has historically placed a high value on the design aesthetic of its products and their functionality. Even the early all-in-one Macintosh computers had the polished edges in the software that came installed on those beige boxes with the molded carrying handles. …
Popular culture seems to think the concept of robots began around the time of Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics, published in 1942. But a dive into the history of robots—loosely defined in this context as a machine capable of carrying out a pre-defined set of actions automatically—dates back hundreds of years before Asimov. A …
In 2013, the late Amy Bleuel founded Project Semicolon ten years after her father’s suicide. The non-profit organization advocates for mental health awareness. Bleuel chose the semicolon for the organization because, as punctuation, it represents a continuation of thought. In essence, a semicolon is used in print when an author could have ended a thought …
About two weeks ago, astronomers welcomed a new tool into their arsenal for studying the cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. The observatory houses the world’s largest digital camera, which photographs the sky every 40 seconds. According to the observatory’s website, the camera is the size of an SUV and captures images at …
The date was February 19, 1990. I was, um, significantly younger. That is the date the world was introduced to the brainchild of two brothers: Thomas and John Knoll. The world would never be the same. That was the date Photoshop 1.0 was released for the Macintosh computer. In recent years—particularly before the developments in …
For those of you unfamiliar with the term, biohacking has been defined by Dictionary.com as “strategic biological experimentation, especially upon oneself, using technology, drugs, hormones, diet, etc., with the goal of enhancing or augmenting performance, health, mood, or the like.” Author Tim Ferriss shared his thoughts on biohacking on an episode of the Money Rehab …
Think back to your youth. If you had siblings, I would bet that you’ve experienced a tickle war at some point in your life. Being tickled is something that everyone has experienced at least once in their life. So why does science know so little about it? Charles Darwin and Socrates pondered the physical reaction …
Blade Runner. The Terminator. The Matrix. I, Robot. Ex Machina. Those are just a smattering of movies that have dealt with the what-if questions surrounding Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the humans that develop the technology. These questions go back decades. In 1942, author Isaac Asimov created the three laws of robotics for his short story, …
Last month, A Minecraft Movie was released in theaters. Starring Jason Momoa and Jack Black (along with the hilarious Jennifer Coolidge), the cast brought the video game franchise to the silver screen. Yes, I know what Minecraft is. Yes, I understand the fundamental concepts. Yes, my kids even played it. One of the other men …
Every time I upgrade my iPhone, one of the first settings I change is the typing sound on the digital keyboard. I have to switch this off. The digital representation pales in comparison to the harsh, metallic sounds of the manual typewriters I grew up with. As someone who enjoys writing, typewriters have always held …
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