Among many good points in the Bali article, I was struck by how the article begins with a reference to how digital products often exceed the designers’ plans then ends with the question about how technology constraints us. To me, that seems like a perfect summary of tech’s dichotomy, which…

Developing and maintaining a personalized understanding of technology makes one tech literate. This includes both factual and conceptual knowledge, approaches to problem solving using risk/reward analysis that leads to more informed actions, and finally, the skills and competence needed to interact with the technology in our everyday environments, at least…

My best friend has been pestering me to start playing Elden Ring, a new video game based on an old franchise he loves the most, Dark Souls. I prefer Fallout, Fortnite, or Madden, so he had failed to interest me in his favorite game… until I was driving past GameStop…

My favorite trend in AI is called Natural Language Processing, or NLP. The definition in the LinkedIn article that we read this week made sense to me: gathering text in one database so that AI can interpret it. Because language is less structured than math and science subjects, the variability…

“Good intentions never work, you need good mechanisms to make anything happen.” Jeff Bezos from Fact of the Day 1 With obscure types of cancer, or local high school teams and clubs, promoting awareness is essential to the cause. On the other hand, for the biggest issues and movements like…

Focusing on the United States of America, broadband access is one of the two biggest ethical concerns related to digital equity, defined by the NDIA as “affordable, robust broadband internet service” that enables internet connectivity. …

Digital Privacy is a security element of the internet that supports our need to share and discover information by setting standards for tracking usage, monetizing the data that is being collected, and enabling users to adjust those parameters to their individual comfort level for each activity they perform online. These…

Intention differentiates misinformation from disinformation, though the content creator bears the greatest responsibility. Being intentionally misleading, disinformation harms the common good and endangers future generations. The implication is that because the information is false, incorrect conclusions will lead to errors in judgments and bad decisions. On another hand, the complex…

The Internet competes for our time and attention by offering unprecedented autonomy. Password-protected private spaces offer a vault in which a secret identity experiments and grows. Unmediated message boards offer platforms for a secret identity to communicate as a public persona. The mirroring and replication on which the Internet depends…