It seems that in the last week, nearly everyone I’ve come in contact with has been sick to some degree–the husky voice, the sniffle and nose blow, the deep cough; or maybe they just stayed…
Crystal Ball
Seven Rules for the Age of Empowerment
Last week I re-posted a blog entry from 2005 on the Age of Empowerment. This week I’m re-posting a companion piece, also from 2005, that elaborates on how to live in the Age of…
Are We Living in ‘The Age of Empowerment’?
For this week’s blog entry, I’m reposting part 1 of a series I wrote in 2005, but never got around to publishing beyond my own department at Goshen College. I’m reposting it because it’s a…
A Chicago Cab Ride to the Hyper-Efficient Future
I took a cab ride on a recent trip to Chicago. My cabbie, a chatty man from Iraq, was driving a hybrid Scion xB, a pint-sized, cross-over vehicle from Toyota. I asked him how he…
Conversations With Siri and Company Becoming Ever More Interesting
In 1987, Apple Computer released a video called “The Knowledge Navigator” in which a college professor in 2012 walks into his paneled office and has a conversation with his computer, personified by a bowtie-wearing avatar….