Laurence Mesirow
I am a writer who has been concerned about the effects of modern technology on human living environments and human behavior for many years.
Keeping The Lid On In Our Lives
Our efforts in modern technological society to make life more and more frictionless seem to know no limits. The latest invention to fill this need is the Lyd bottle. This is a bottle that...
The Conspiracies That Only Seem To Exist
One of the more unusual phenomena to appear recently within the ranks of the Republican Party is the Qanon conspiracy theory. According to this theory, the chaos that has been appearing in the White...
Our New Almost-Human Best Friends
Alexa is a virtual assistant created by Amazon for which new uses are constantly developed. One of the recent uses is described by Christina Ianzito in an article for the July/August 2018 AARP Bulletin. ...
How Robots Can Help Us To Not Be Ourselves
Given the fact that robots are taking over so many of our human work activities, I was trying the other day to gain some perspective on some of the reasons that we have decided...
Watching People Watch Screens
In a recent article, I discussed a form of technological expression that involved layers of mediated experience. With virtual robots, there is the mediation of having robots to do jobs or tasks that would...
Diving Into The Depths Of Unreality
Now that we have so many different expressions of modern technology in our world, one of the next steps seems to be the combination of different expressions in order to have them reinforce each...
Trying to fly over obstacles
As more and more cars hit the roads, and there is an ever increasing amount of urban congestion, people are trying to think of new ways to deal effectively with the problem. One way...
Losing The Story Behind Our Melodies
Artificial Intelligence music (AIM) is based on the random combination and modification of pre-existing note patterns to create new larger note patterns that form a piece of music. Sometimes, when humans themselves try to...
Blurring The Lines Between Humans And Others
A lot of controversy has developed, as scientists have pushed forward research involving the injection of animal embryos with human genes, in order to develop human organs that can be harvested for use by...
Taking Our Lives To Feel Alive
There have been a number of articles recently in my column about a form of aggression that I have called crimes of numbness. People become so numb as a result of the frictionlessness and...