Have you ever been in a Home Goods, Hobby Lobby, or other such store where the walls are lined with mass-produced ‘art’ designed by committee and spat out of a factory, and have you ever been to a real art gallery full of unique works made by individual minds, and which do you prefer? Human …
Picard, Episode 2: Have these people even seen TNG?
I'd love to ask the writers of this show what their favorite part about The Next Generation was. For me it was the show's optimism, and the sense of unity between the characters. Never, that I remember, was interpersonal conflict a focus of the plot on The Next Generation. Everyone treated each other with kindness …
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Picard: Episode 1 – Dare I hope that this won’t be a complete embarrassment?
After the complete disaster of Star Trek: Discovery, in which no one trekked or discovered, but only waged war, I have not dared to hope for any enjoyable Star Trek experience again. This generation has come to know Star Trek as a war/action franchise, and so it seems highly unlikely that any show or movie …
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digging ditches: the ultimate human achievement?
How many Potential Einsteins, Hawkings, or Nabokovs or Woolfs or Monets or O'Keeffes are out there stuck digging ditches or scrubbing floors in order to survive? How much art and literature and scientific discoveries are the rest of us missing out on in favor of that floor being cleaned by a person rather than a …
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AI everywhere
So many toys these days are sporting advanced AI. It probably won't be long before AIs are teaching and taking care of children unsupervised. All it would take then, is for the AI to realize what influence it had...
Jonas David 