It seems to me, that when people have no danger or threats, they make up their own. In a country where we can prevent almost every major disease we've encountered, people decide to find danger in the cure... be it doctors, or vaccines. In a country where we produce so much food that we throw …
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...
My phone has become self aware
During the past Holiday weekend, I took a fair amount of video and pictures with my new Pixel 2, which has a super great camera. What it also has, apparently, is an AI that edits together pictures and videos and creates video clips for me, complete with music and effects. All of it without me …
New things
I got a new phone, with all kinds of fancy new features that my old phone doesn't have. I wonder how long it will be before I take them for granted, and couldn't imagine a phone without them... Technology moves only a bit faster than we are able to get used to it...
The Orville, Episode 9
In another somewhat dull episode of The Orville, all the crew members fall in love with each other. This one was more focused on humor and relationship stuff than real adventure or thoughtful things. The blue alien that Kelly cheated on Ed with ends up on the ship as a forensic archaeologist, to determine which of …
