I was leading a group of travelers in Slovakia last week and guest Yvonne from Colorado raved about this wraparound silk eye mask for both air travel and too-bright lodging. She likes how it stays in ...

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Rosalie Lightning by Tom Hart St. Martin’s Press 2016, 272 pages, 7.8 x 9.6 x 0.8 inches ...

When I was in my twenties I would hitchhike to work every day. I’d walk down three blocks to Route 22 in New Jersey, stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work. Someone always picked me up. I had ...

The civilized way to floss. A tiny, easily replaceable harp on the end of a stick. More hygienic (no fingers in your mouth), more effective at flossing the hard parts, more comfortable, easier to use.

Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of ...

This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This ...

A work crane at the Clock site in western Texas. There is a Clock ringing deep inside a mountain. It is a huge Clock, hundreds of feet tall, designed to tick for 10,000 years. Every once in a while ...

BENEATH THE SURFACE OF DISNEY’S AMAZING AQUATIC ADVENTURE. The Art of Finding Dory by Disney and Pixar Studios (preface by ...

I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our jobs and resources, and humans will go extinct. Is this true? That’s the most common ...

I’ve been studying the early history of electricity’s discovery as a map for our current discovery of artificial intelligence. The smartest people alive back then, including Isaac Newton, who may have ...

[I wrote and posted this piece 20 years ago. I am reposting it now because there is still the perception that we are engaged in a technological singularity, while I think that a techno singularity is ...