With automation taking over more and more tasks once performed by humans, creating large numbers of surplus people in the process (something like 91 million in the US alone at the time of this writing), the next significant and complex human task to fall victim to relentless automation appears to be foreign language learning. Eliminating […]
About a year ago I began to play the piano. Like many people I started to play in first grade but stopped after 3rd grade because I didn’t have a good teacher. But it was a gateway instrument that led first to the saxophone, then the clarinet and finally the oboe, which I’ve been playing […]
After sitting in stop and go traffic for about half an hour last night on the way home from the office due to a 6 car pile up on the freeway, I started thinking that maybe self driving cars might not be all that bad of an idea. Although a lawyer acquaintance said that cars […]