Pink shock and emerald green in the back yard Emily was here for breakfast on Thursday and I had the morning’s news on public radio—the same stories staring at me from the front page of my newspaper—and she said with millennial weariness: Why are … [Continue reading]
The norms that dictate the acceptable use of artificial intelligence in technology are in flux. That's partly because the AI-enabled, personal data gathering by companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon has caused a spirited debate about the right … [Continue reading]
There is a difference between new technology we've already adopted without thinking it through and new technology that we still have the chance to tame before its harms start overwhelming its benefits. Think about Google, Facebook, Apple and Amazon … [Continue reading]
Hong Kong could still swallow the dragon. A cover story in the Wall Street Journal today was called "Hong Kong’s Flickering Hopes." “Flickering” because to Gerard Baker, the Journal’s “editor at large,” it seems inevitable that … [Continue reading]
A Sidewalk in Koreatown I’ve been re-writing quite a bit since I got back from LA, mostly stories for the book and, in particular, the heart of a central story that I‘d never managed to find before. One of the wonders of “getting away” is the … [Continue reading]
