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Lots of reading and writing this last year . . . stay tuned
Big Data – Post-Pandemic
We will need to harness Big Data not for centralized mass surveillance, but to intelligently distribute and share resources between communities, based on supply, demand, and need. – Nafeez Ahmed is executive director of the System […]
Are Promises to Halt Police Facial Tracking Just a Tech Sleight of Hand?
Calls to stop, or severely regulate, the use of facial recognition software by police is all well and good, but we can’t let the tech companies play sleight of hand with us, agreeing to bow […]
Encouraging Support of Arts in U.S.
When I wrote a WEB book about composer Amy Beach for my MFA, I learned that symphony halls were established in order to give the PUBLIC access to great music. Today most in the public […]
New Tech Impedes My Progress!
Well, WordPress has given itself a huge up-grade – called Gutenberg. And it has met with much controversy, I find. And, yeah, for geeky tech people sometimes new tech can just be a pain like […]
Automated Vehicle Companies Try to Push Safety Standard Exclusion Through Congress
For years I have studied driverless vehicles and related artificial intelligence, both for my consulting work with the cities of Glendale and Burbank, and due to personal interest in the subject (I am writing a […]
My Disbelief in Automated Cars Gets a High Profile Advocate
For quite some time I have been preaching that autonomous cars are a boy toy fantasy myth. A tech progress fantasy used to lure literally billions of dollars from tech faithful investors, money that they […]
Apple Has Lost Its Innovation Polish
Riffing About Tim Cook and Apple’s New Old Mac Mini By Terry Bailey Nov 4, 2018 When former Pepsi CEO John Scully was running Apple in the Nineties, I gave an interview to MacWeek, and […]
The Irish Wall
Create political art from politics. The problem: as England pulls from the European Union they are faced with the possibility of having to re-erect the “Irish Wall.” Here from the Northern Irish playwright Clare Dwyer […]
When Students Are More Tech Savvy Than Their Teachers
Facebook Dialogue Terry Bailey: Oct. 20, 2018 – Subbed a college coding class last week. Students asked if I had a smart phone. I said, “Of course.” They said, “Most of our professors still have […]