Turning a new leaf in suburbia
Social critic James Howard Kunstler referred to suburban sprawl as “the greatest misallocation of resources in history.”1 In his view, “The suburbs have three destinies – as slums, salvage yards, and...
View ArticleFinding safe paths through suburbia
Also published on Resilience The post-WWII suburban settlement pattern assumes and reinforces car travel as the default transport choice for its residents. Do such settlements have a future when the...
View Articlecloudy with sunny breaks
PHOTO POST A long stretch of warm but gloomy weather finally made room for a week of old-fashioned winter, with brisk winds, the odd sunny day, and even some ice buildup on the shoreline. How cold did...
View ArticleBodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex
Also published on Resilience. This year may or may not be the year the latest wave of AI-hype crests and subsides. But let’s hope this is the year mass media slow their feverish speculation about the...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence in the Material World
Bodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex, part two Also published on Resilience. Picture a relatively simple human-machine interaction: I walk two steps, flick a switch on the...
View Article“Warning. Data Inadequate.”
Bodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex, part three Also published on Resilience. “The Navy revealed the embryo of an electronic computer today,” announced a New York Times...
View ArticleBeware of WEIRD Stochastic Parrots
Bodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex, part four Also published on Resilience. A strange new species is getting a lot of press recently. The New Yorker published the...
View ArticleWatching work
Bodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex, part five Also published on Resilience. Consider a human vs computer triathlon. The first contest is playing a cognitively demanding...
View ArticleFarming on screen
Bodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex, part six Also published on Resilience. What does the future of farming look like? To some pundits the answer is clear: “Connected...
View ArticleThe existential threat of artificial stupidity
Bodies, Minds, and the Artificial Intelligence Industrial Complex, part seven Also published on Resilience. One headline about artificial intelligence gave me a rueful laugh the first few times I saw...
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