The Oldest Technology We Haven’t Mastered
In 2021, I wrote The Power of the Mind. A book that started with a simple admission: I have always been intrigued by the power of the mind. Books like The Celestine Prophecy, Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East, and The Monk Who Sold His…
The Future of Technology and Humanity
How Innovation Will Shape the World Ahead The future is going to be really cool. Technology gets better every year. It changes how people live, learn, work and talk to each other. From intelligence to space exploration, the future of technology and…
When Technology Makes the User Its Tool
There used to be a time when a clear distinction existed between an user and the tool they used. For instance, the radio and the landline telephone were tools. When we listened to the radio, we were the users. We used the radio for information and…
Take control of your technology
It is meant to serve us, but if you don’t take control of your technology, it might end up controlling you. Here’s how to begin. Creative work has changed a lot in my lifetime. When I started out as a freelance music writer in the early 1980s, I would…
How to Create a Technology Roadmap Leadership Can Actually Use
Key takeaways for a roadmap leaders will use Start with the business problem, not the tech list Your roadmap should not begin with systems. It should begin with the pressure your business is under. If you start with tools, you get a wish list. If you…
The Silent Syntax:What Happens When AI Begins to Write Its Own Programming Languages?
We have always assumed that code belonged to us. We used it as a bridge, creating a proprietary language for our brains to communicate with mindless silicon. C++, Rust, Python, and Java. They use human-like syntax, including if, else, return,…
AI ‘Artworks’ Are Like Crayon Drawings by Five-Year-Olds
People keep bragging to me about their AI slop and expect me to be impressed A colleague texted me the other day. “Hey, I was thinking about the intersection of X and Y, and I wrote an article about it. Here it is,” he said. The first red flag was that I…
I thought Technology was giving me Freedom — Until I looked closer
The development of modern science has given humans immense power, but it also poses the danger that we may begin to view nature and our own lives solely from the perspective of use and control. If our choices remain confined to this limited perspective,…