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Engineering is inseparable from economics.  Doing engineering without regard for costs or return on investment (ROI) is doomed to failure.  So here's a question to ponder:  what investment can produce a return over time of $60.04 for every dollar invested?&nbs...


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In an online commentary on The New Yorker website, writer Joshua Rothman tackles the question of the artificial-intelligence (AI) bubble.  On this first week of the new year, that seems like an appropriate question to ask.  It's pretty clear that AI is not going away.  Too many ...


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Charlie is six years old.  He is the grandson of a cousin of mine who I met at supper over the Christmas holidays last week.  His grandmother showed me a book she bought Charlie for Christmas.  It was a short but well-made book with slick paper and professional-looking illustrations...


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Did you know that your smart TV will in all likelihood (a) use audio and video recognition technology to determine exactly what programming you are watching every second, whether it's over-the-air TV, cable TV, streaming, or even something you're watching from a computer hooked up to your TV as a mon...


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Someone writing around 1930 that civilization might be in ruins in about fifteen years, is worth paying attention to even nearly a century later.  One such person was Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), whose biography by Maisie Ward I have been reading lately. 


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