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.
Getting Religion From A Robot
I’m not Protestant, but if I were, I think I would be concerned about the entry of the newest entity that has joined the clergy of the religion. The entity under discussion is a...
No More Adventures On The High Seas
In a previous article, I discussed some of the ramifications of self-driving cars from the perspective of some of the ongoing themes I have introduced in this column. I have been concerned about the...
The Problems Millennials Have In Confronting The World
In the June 16th Agenda Weekly for the World Economic Forum, there is an article by Keith Breene titled “Millennials are rapidly losing interest in democracy.” It delves into this proposition from a number...
Beautiful Art That Is Made To Disappear
When we think of art in the Western world, we normally think of it in terms of its aesthetic appeal to people and not in terms of any healing properties it may have. Granted...
Sucking The Life Out Of Shopping
As many of you know from your own personal experience, more and more purchases of everything from clothing to electronics to books to food are being made from the comfort of one’s home. There...
Learning the way that machines do
This article focuses on a series of areas in modern technology that are very complex, very sophisticated and very nuanced particularly for a non-technology person like myself. It is in dealing with an area...
Better Functioning Of The Brain With Electricity
Up until recently, hacking was a term used for the invasion of the internal working space of a computer or some other modern device by certain humans for purposes of control and manipulation. It...
When Recreation Is No Longer Much Fun
Modern technology has had a tremendous influence on the world of human recreation, partly as a result of the development of totally new forms of competition, both with others as well as with oneself,...
Trump And Evil
In previous writings, this column has concerned itself with the relationship between evil and the human living environment in which it is found. It is one of the fundamental ideas of this column that...
Controlling robots with thoughts
With the advances in modern technology, all kinds of new connections are being created between humans and robots. The most ideal one, certainly by the standards of the transhumanists, is to become a cyborg,...