AI in Healthcare
Custom image created by Perplexity AI AI in Healthcare: Powerful Tool, Human Responsibility Artificial intelligence is beginning to reshape healthcare—not by replacing doctors and nurses, but by helping them find patterns, reduce routine work, and make better-informed decisions. Used responsibly, AI can make care more timely and personalized; used carelessly, it can amplify bias, expose […]
The New Skill: “Let Me Check That.”
Custom image created by Perplexity AI The New Skill: “Let Me Check That.” Every important technology arrives with a promise. It will make us faster. It will make us smarter. It will take care of the tedious things so we can devote ourselves to more meaningful work. Sometimes that promise is fulfilled. Sometimes it is not. […]
The Slide Rule
Technology museum at the corner of my workshop The Slide Rule I just finished reading The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution by T.R. Reid. Reid did an enormous amount of research on all the names and technologies of the 1950s and 60s. I was an electrical engineering student from […]
Quantum Computing
Dr. Mark Hirko, Dr. Paul Wright, Dr. John Patrick at Watson Research Quantum Computing What looks like a fancy chandelier in the picture is actually the heart of an IBM quantum computer. AI is still at the top of my list of technologies which is changing the world, but another transformative technology further out but […]
Solar
s Solar For as long as I can remember, I have believed the sun would ultimately be our main source of power. The sun is a nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, roughly 4.6 billion years old, which generates energy through nuclear fusion, a science which has attracted billions of dollars for research to reproduce […]