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.
Cyborgs and Trumporgs
Several different metaphors have been used to describe Trump in this column. Here is another one. There is something about the way that he plows into issues and comes up with incredibly impulsive defined...
Shifting People’s Sense Of Reality To Achieve Political Goals
Up until relatively recently in history, most people could agree on what constituted a common sense objective reality. Subjective reality was something else, and certainly each individual permitted to a degree the projection of...
Talking To Machines As If They Were People
One of the cores ideas consistently discussed in this column has been mirroring. A baby reaches out to his mother to satisfy his needs and his mother’s response to him is based on how...
Being swallowed up by the world of cartoons
Like most little boys growing up in America after World War II, I was absolutely fascinated by an American version of animated films, namely cartoons. I recently started thinking a lot about cartoons...
Robots that deliver the goods
In the ever increasing search to find ways to eliminate unnecessary human connections in the modern world, an online food ordering and delivery service company from the U.K. called Just Eat is going to...
One reason that Trump won the election
Trump! Trump! Trump! That’s practically the only story that is being discussed by the news analysts in the United States these days. And it’s practically the only story that is...
The Changing Panorama Of Human Artifacts
The evolution of using things in the external world to obtain food goes back a long way among animals. Many non-human animals use pre-existing objects in their living environment. These consist primarily of twigs...
Waiting On A Mechanical Cloud
As most people know, Nissan is a Japanese company that produces some of the best automobiles in their particular price range. Not content to rest on its laurels as a manufacturer of cars, Nissan...
When Things Start To Happen In Life
Causation is an area of thought about which there has been much discussion in philosophy. It has been sliced up into different sets of categories for different philosophical approaches. I am interested in causation,...
Smart Devices, Dumber People
The word “smart” has taken on a whole new meaning in the age of digital technology. It used to refer to a quality of intelligence exercised primarily by humans, but also by higher-level animals...