Singularity -will our grandchildren be cyborgs?
Technical Singularity (as opposed to the black hole gravitational kind) is really the stuff of science fiction. Simply stated, it's the coming together of technology and humankind in a way that will cause the human race to be something more than human...potentially unrecognizable...and it may be here sooner than we think. Imagine a time when we can fully map the brain, transfer information and consciousness between humans and machines. Authors and filmmakers and theorists hav
Reinventing Primary Education
The next chapter in my series on trendspotting. This past week (Feb. 27, 2017) a new study by the American Cancer Society showed that rates of colon cancer have been increasing among Millennials, reversing decades of decline. You may ask what this has to do with the title of this piece. Bear with me it does. There is a lot of conjecture about the causes - from obesity to poor eating habits (fast food diets), lack of exercise, etc. More study is warranted of course but one fac
