Giving Thanks for America and Its Piano Man Thanksgiving is my favorite American holiday. Let me count some of the ways I love Thanksgiving.
Coming Electricity Crisis Will Test Trump and Musk I would like to lay before you two powerful myths that are very present in the United States in this post-election hiatus.
The Buoyancy of Immigrants and Their Success in Science I have been exploring the heights of scientific endeavor in reporting on artificial intelligence, from its use in medical research (especially…
Productivity To Surge with AI: Do the Politicians Know? There is every chance that the world’s industrial economies may be about to enjoy an incredible surge in productivity, something like the arrival of…
I’m Not Old, I Just Remember Other Things I am approaching what may be thought of as a significant birthday next month. I’m not sure what makes it significant except the number attached to…
Coming in AI: ‘Agents’ You Can Speak with Conversationally The next big wave in artificial intelligence innovation is at hand: agents.
How NIMBYism Is Strangling America Like fog, it creeps in, but unlike fog, it doesn’t dissipate. It gets denser and does untold damage to the economy and Americans’ lives
Undersea Cable Could End Puerto Rico’s Electricity Woes; Hook Up the World Some men go to war and come back broken. Others come back and blackout that experience. Some are never whole again
What Might Happen If Google Is Broken Up Alphabet Inc.’s Google has few peers in the world of success. Founded on Sept. 4, 1998, it has a market capitalization of $1.98 trillion today.
Reporter Scores First Cat Interview Since JD Vance’s Comments After Republican vice-presidential nominee JD Vance denigrated women who keep cats and don’t have children, whom he characterized as sad “cat…
The Wild, Fabulous Medical Frontier with Predictive AI When is a workplace at its happiest? I would submit that it is during the early stages of a project that is succeeding, whether it is a restaurant,…
How the Movement to MAGA Britain Failed in Its Time “Make America Great Again.” Those words have been gently haunting me not because of their political loading but because they have been reminding me…
Court Ruling Mandates Confusion, Judicial Activism Myths are powerful things — so powerful that one has been endorsed by the Supreme Court and now has the federal government by the throat . Its…
Tech Conquers All, From Making a New Aristocracy to Making Taylor Swift I sometimes write about the propensity for technology to be imperial, to conquer and to force itself on the world whether the world wants it or…
Fusion Power Is Now a Possible Dream Fusion power, the Holy Grail of nuclear energy for decades, may finally be within our grasp.
Tech Giants Want In on Electricity, Google Has a Foothold During the desperate days of the energy crisis in the 1970s, it looked as though the shortage was permanent and we would have to change the way we…
Five Things That Underlie the Anxiety That Is Gripping the Nation They say Generation Z is a generation of anxiety. Prima facie, I say they should get a grip. They are self-indulgent, self-absorbed and spoiled —…
Father’s Day Challenge: Neckties Are Out I admire Ben Mankiewicz, the host of Turner Classic Movies. He is the man we all think we are in our dreams: handsome, urbane, authoritative, and…
Three Environmental Organizations That Are Out-of-Step Greedy men and women are conspiring to wreck the environment just to enrich themselves
