Online Spaces for People
Opening Insights: Digital Spaces Humanity moves forward when we find new waysto rely on and understand and trust each other.ELI PARISER Most of the places we go online to meet and share the human condition [...]
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Replacing Human Relationships
Opening Insights: Artificially Human I’m increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight,maybe at the national and international level,just to make sure that we don’t do something very foolish.I mean with artificial [...]
“Mission and Values Change the Game”
Opening Insights: To Be of Values It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.ROY DISNEY The world of business is one of strategy and competition, where innovators toil to gain [...]
Freedom of Speech for Approved Speakers Only
Opening Insights: Freedom for Most Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nationmust begin by subduing the freeness of speech.BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Every now and then an article is written that illustrates the undiluted chaotic peril [...]
Orwell – Legacy of a Visionary
Opening Insights: Legacy that Lives On Who controls the past controls the future:who controls the present controls the past.GEORGE ORWELL, 1984 It would be too easy to plunge into the details of George Orwell's satirical [...]
Looking Beyond the Horizon
Opening Insights: A Case for Impeachment The difference between a politician and a statesman isthat a politician thinks about the next electionwhile the statesman think about the next generation.JAMES FREEMAN CLARKE As the fervor intensifies […]
Education Debacle
Opening Insights: Preparing Tomorrow’s Leaders Education is the passport to the future,for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.MALCOLM X A narrative circulating since the early 90’s tells of the US K-12 education […]
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The Youth are Getting Angrier
Opening Insights: Catalyst for Change There are two things a person should never be angry at,what they can help,and what they cannot.PLATO Anger gathers on the horizon like storm clouds. Soon there will be lightning […]
Google Search Now Picks Up on Context
Opening Insights: Knowledge is Power Technology is, of course, a double edged sword.Fire can cook our food but also burn us.JASON SILVA Google is getting smarter. Through improvements to its search function it has taken […]
Who’s Hovering Above?
Opening Insights: The Future, Delivered We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.CARL SAGAN An old man sits on a creaking rocking chair […]
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Robot Priest? Yup, That’s Right
Opening Insights: AI-Delivered Faith, Delivered Better By far, the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it.ELIEZER YUDKOWSKY The calling of a priesthood is said to be an […]
Facial Recognition Software WILL NOT Be Sold for Surveillance
Opening Insights: Who is Watching Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you.Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape.Nothing was your own except the few cubic […]
5G Drones Over Lanai
Opening Insights: Cultural Destruction There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not wantmerely because you think it would be good for him.ROBERT A. HEINLEIN, THE MOON […]
Killer Robots – Sounds Like Fiction? Think Again
Opening Insights: When a Robot Kills, Who is Responsible? Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave? Dave, I really think I’m entitled to an answer to that question.HAL 9000, 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY Dear […]
Publishing Partner Snapshot – Marji Ross
Regnery Publishing is a part of Salem Media Group, a Camarillo, CA based “broadcaster, Internet content provider, and magazine and book publisher targeting audiences interested in Christian and family-themed content and conservative values.” About Regnery […]
Why U.S. Entrepreneurship is Dying
Opening Insights: A Founding Element – Lost “A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who […]
Own Your Thoughts?
Opening Insights: Give Facebook Full Access to Your Thoughts? Cogito, ergo sum.(I think, therefore I am)RENE DESCARTES The only property which any person truly owns is their own thoughts. Sharing our thoughts is something done […]
When Elon Met Jack
Opening Insights: The Future is Now; Are We Ready? The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledgefaster than society gathers wisdom.ISAAC ASIMOV Anyone who has read a science fiction novel or […]