This week, Dr. Ben Carson raised $20 million after making bigoted, ignorant comments, encouraging the GOP to find other medical professionals willing to be even more offensive.
- Old Print Articles: Benito Mussolini, Italy’s murderous clown, builds his own Hollywood (1936) + Edward Schieffelin strikes it rich In Tombstone, Arizona (1897).
- Mark Leibovich considers the new abnormal of Trump-ian politics.
- While HP CEO, Carly Fiorina was completely outmaneuvered by Steve Jobs.
- In the U.S. and Britain, the middle class has been in decline for decades.
- Strange bedfellows are expressing support for Universal Basic Income.
- Superintelligence has its dangers, but we should still pursue it.
- Humans probably can’t control Artificial Intelligence progress.
- Technology may be having surprising impacts on environment and economics.
- The new Space Race is rushing to Mars, a lonely and complicated mission.
- Stephen Hawking wants us to anticipate existential risks. Can we?
- The Kindle, perhaps lulled by its monopoly, hasn’t continued to evolve.
- Hitachi created a system that can predict future crimes. That’s good and bad.
- Virtual Reality may end up being a very effective therapy tool.
- Adam Gazzaley is working on the bleeding edge of video-game therapy.
- Cyborgism will present ethical challenges along with its medical miracles.
- The word “robot” may have outlived its usefulness.
- Driverless buses and taxis are being tested in Asia.
- Companies with fleets of drones they can operate for you will soon be a reality.
- American education, stuck in the past, needs a technological disruption.
- Terrorists really don’t need a mass migration to enter Europe.
- Journalist Erik Sandberg-Diment amusingly chronicled the early PC era.
- A brief note from 1932 about monkey bankers.
- A brief note from 1951 about mellow canaries.
- This week’s Afflictor keyphrase searches.