by Charles Cameron | Mar 7, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — where would we be without our digital devices, minds & memories? ] . Two converging thoughts, the first from John Robb at Global Guerrillas: Over the weekend, ISIS threatened the life of Jack Dorsey, a co-founder and Chairman of...
by Lynn C. Rees | Aug 2, 2014 | Monitor
[revived from long sleep by Lynn C. Rees] Lego Terminator The parable of Skynet, written by James Cameron long before he inflicted Leo-cicles and giant blue Thundercats on an unsuspecting public, crystallized fear of artificial intelligence (AI) for a generation...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 9, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a minor contribution to the discussion about STEM-to-stern education ] . Adm Grace Murray Hopper** I really don’t want to put too much weight on this — for one thing, John Boyd was, if Wiki is not mistaken, the possessor of a...
by zen | Jul 4, 2013 | Monitor
Ahem….”I told you so“. “Congress intended to allow the intelligence communities to access targeted information for specific investigations. How can every call that every American makes or receives be relevant to a specific investigation?” ...
by Charles Cameron | May 19, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — bemused again, “jihad” (the word) in the news, “big data” too, plus Google expecting Mahdi ] . I suppose I should be glad — or should I? — that the word jihad is now in the news. It’s about time....
