The upheavals [of artificial intelligence] can escalate quickly and become scarier and even cataclysmic,” the New York Times tech columnist once wrote. “Imagine how a medical robot, originally programmed to rid cancer, could conclude that the best way to obliterate cancer is to exterminate humans who are genetically prone to the disease.

I'm not in any sense anti-Facebook.

Information is alienated experience.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

I think that one can seek a way to eliminate war, and still agree that fighting the Nazis was a good thing.

Of all the things you can spend a lot of money on, the only things you expect to fail frequently are software and medicine.