I have a working theory that you can tell how good an electrical engineer is by the type of soldering iron tip they use.
And no one uses a knife tip, I mean come on, be serious.
Here’s a fun essay from Douglas Adams: How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet. He says that attitudes toward technology go like this:
Ah, click bait. Sign of the times! MEGATHREAT: Why AI Is So Dangerous & How It Could Destroy Humanity | Mo Gawdat.
Mo Gawdat is an Egyptian entrepreneur and writer. He is the former chief business officer for Google X and author of the books Solve for Happy and Scary Smart.
Mo says there are some things we shouldn’t waste time talking about because they are going to happen, inevitably. These are:
…and the fourth inevitability? Utopia..?
An old interview of an MIT professor from 1985: Weizenbaum examines computers and society. I haven’t had the time to read the whole thing yet.
I was reading the Obituary for Don Lancaster (RIP K3BYG) and I noticed the two ads, shown below. I wasn’t sure at first if this was satire, or not… ah, crime and commerce in the land of the free.
Hell yeah! ChatGPT Shared Links FAQ. I see many links in your future.
6 Phases of the Post-GPT World. A good read. Some interesting ideas. Many quotable bits but this was my fav: “In short, we’re about to multiply the creative output of planet Earth by hundreds of orders of magnitude.”
Just re-enjoying this old chestnut: Falsehoods programmers believe about programming.
I found this interesting talk from Carl Mitcham called Can engineering save us? A Moulakis Lecture in Responsible Engineering with Carl Mitcham. His answer: no.