Too much knowledge, too much introspection can be a dangerous thing. Become too successful in teaching the youth critical-thinking and skepticism and they may just cut through all this 21st century hubris like a well-honed blade through flesh. Some people may come to a different realization and become morally alienated in this corporate world…

Will Human Progress Doom Us All?

I am often reminded of the terrible price we and the Earth have paid for what we call in perfunctory…

There is something wrong with being called a Consumer…

Consumer… Consumer… kuhn-soo-mer… No matter how many times I see, read, or utter this word something turns ill inside. It reminds me of a mindless eating machine rummaging through the muck with nothing but a couple of ganglia the size…

The Soviets Invented the Modern Chip

This is just an interesting bit of computer history which most likely got glossed over in a rather globalized, neoliberal world. Vladimir Pentkovski was a Soviet chip architect employee at Elbrus. He was with the Elbrus team working on superscalar architecture and…

I no longer care for Tech Magnates

It all began in my youth. I was an incurable sci-fi and tech nerd. Any space operas, cyborg rebellions, or alien escapades on TV would transform me into a statue transfixed to the screen. My hobbies included building robots and space ships with Legos, creating mystery…

The Servants of Mammon

There are rare moments after a day of introspection and reading from a dictionary where there is a moment of crystal clarity. It is in that moment that a booming voice filled with energy and emotion struggles to break free. In one such a moment, I heard such a voice, and here is what it…

This was well thought out. However, the biggest concern people have with Common Core has nothing to do with how it is teaching math. People are concerned that Gates and Pearson Education are using the pretext of “helping children” to turn education into a business and reaping huge returns in the process. There are conflicts of interest which include…

Will Medium Make an Important Contribution to the End of World

Just to see if anyone is paying attention, I will leave this here. Laugh, if you feel the need to. If you do not find what makes this funny, well, there is no hope for you.