The AI Mousetrap
AI promises free cheese, but there is no such thing as a free lunch. Although we often boast about AI’s ability to create, we should instead focus the conversation on the kind of society AI produces.
Against the Florida-fication of the World
And this progression from the raw, unabated natural Florida to the ever-more artificial Florida, has grave consequences for both the geographical locale and the people who inhabit it.
The False Promise of 3D Printers
As is clear to see, Business Insider's portrayal of 3D printing as a panacea for America's housing crisis falls short upon closer examination.
Toward a Politics of Beauty
This talk was delivered earlier this year at a conference on wellbeing held at the Sorbonne.
On the Need to Reactivate Our Right Hemispheres
In our daily lives, we need activities that aren’t driven by our left hemispheres. We need leisure (as understood by Josef Pieper). We need to waste time. We need to do nothing . . . a thing that rankles the left hemisphere’s productive disposition.
Modern Architecture: Designed to Demoralize?
Arched doorways, private courtyards, personal craftsmanship, a sense of place, and almost everything else we love about buildings has been taken away by the modernist ethos intent on depriving the public of a choice, as architects are left unchecked to focus more on how their buildings look in magazines than on how the people using them feel.
A Passage to — and a Message from — India
What We Can Learn from a Society Where Community Still Matters
Will No One Rid Me Of These Meddlesome -Isms: Thinking and...
Human liberty is indeed a good. But liberty is the freedom to choose well, not just freedom from restraints.
That Brutal, Ferocious Thing: Watching Civil War
I must say that I did not want to write this review. I walked into the theatre with high hopes for Mr. Garland’s Civil War. I was hoping it would sober people to the actual horrors that a modern a civil war would entail.