If you teach high school or college students, or have kids who are passing through those places, and if your duties include grading papers, or you watch your kids struggle with writing assignments, I have a piece of advice. Tell them to try composing by hand, with pen and paper, not on the . . . . Continue Reading »
Italian intellectual Augusto Del Noce wrote some of the best analysis anywhere of technology’s impact on Western politics, economics, and culture. Continue Reading »
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Our problem isn’t too many or too few guns; it's a culture of automated technology that threatens to destroy human interconnectivity. Continue Reading »
The age of digital communication is sublimating the unique quirks of individuals' written words. Continue Reading »
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As cities vie to be home to Amazon's second headquarters, we might keep in mind the lessons of Booth Tarkington's novel The Magnificent Ambersons. Continue Reading »
Artificial intelligence machines have no greater moral claim to our respect or ethical consideration than a broken toaster. Continue Reading »
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