Social Distancing in the Age of Automation
An unintended consequence of COVID-19 is that the practice of social distancing might remain long after the threat posed by the virus subsides. It seems as if COVID-19 (aka the Coronavirus) has appeared out of nowhere. At the end of 2019, we were all unwrapping out holiday gifts and looking hopefully into a new […]
The Needs of Others
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Technology: Isolation in the Age of Automation
Dependence on technology makes us more independent overall, but it also makes us more isolated. So, what happens if things come to the point where we depend on machines more than we depend on other human beings? Earlier this month I attended a presentation about machine learning on mobile phones at Google IO 2019. Right […]