Riffing on Books, Life, Arts & Sciences
by interactive new media author & artist Terry Bailey
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
From Yahoo Finance News: On Thursday [July 26, 2018] the American Civil Liberties Union provided a good reason for us to think carefully about the evolution of facial-recognition technology. In a study, the group used […]
The man who was fired by a machine BBC News Once the artificial intelligence (AI) “mis-firing” is caught and corrected, the employee leaves his job anyway due to the trauma the experience put him through. […]
When I began driving autonomously at sixteen years of age (i.e. without my father in the passenger seat guiding me and keeping me in compliance with the California driving laws for teens), Dad came home one […]
Usually the lectures I attend at Caltech and JPL are about landing on asteroids, black holes and the composition of Jupiter’s Moons, but this month, they had a biologist who discussed sleep. Years ago many […]
So this morning I was looking for the vintage car rally event held in Pasadena every year the day before the Rose Parade, and this is what I discovered under “Events.” In 2008 a few […]
Update November 12, 2016: the web page where the interview podcast of Leonard Cohen about his new album, You Want It Darker, appeared has now been updated to be a wonderful homage to Cohen with […]