“Bill Gates thinks super machines could eventually become smarter than humans and take our jobs” I hope he’s right, I hope I live to see it, and I hope I have a small part in making it so. I don’t see this prediction as a threat, nor is it particularly profound or insightful – it’s […]
Category Archives: Tech
Trusting GPS
I was recently driving to an appointment and I was running exactly on time. I was a bit stressed about not having any buffer because the office I was going to runs like clockwork. I really didn’t want to be late. Suddenly the highway came to complete stop. People started making u-turns in the median. […]
Improving GPS
Every time I get in my car I ask my smartphone to use precise measurements of time beamed from several points in space to quickly triangulate my location, then wirelessly connect to the internet, find my destination, map a route avoiding traffic, then read the directions to me as I drive. And yet I will […]
Phones – Now Smart!
Before there were smartphones and before there were feature phones there were just phones. They were simple, and they worked. There were flip phones, which had a certain appeal, and there were candy-bars, which I preferred. To call my wife I would mash the 2 key for a second to activate the speed dial. (1 […]