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Robots that deliver the goods

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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...

The Changing Panorama Of Human Artifacts

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  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

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  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...

The Replacement Of Heroes By Robots

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Heroes are a very important part of every society.  They act as a focal point for the members of a society to be inspired to do special good things with their lives.  Most of...

When Things Start To Happen In Life

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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

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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...

Becoming A Ghost Of Oneself Through Technology

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One of the newest technological rages today is Pokemon-Go. Young people use the GPS on their smartphones to go out into the external world to find virtual creatures called Pokemon that they capture,...

Why It’s Not So Great To Become A Robot

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Implicit in this column is not only the idea that people are gradually becoming robots, but also, that it is not a good thing that they become robots. There has been some discussion...

The Sanitized World Of Virtual Art

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The extent of applications of technology in our modern world seems to have no bounds. One particularly interesting group of applications deals with the ability to create within a virtual world of experience....

Turning Poems And Plays Into Data

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The pervasive penetration of modern technology is now extending into areas of human life that one would never have associated with modern technology. I have talked in the past of the importance of protecting...