Future

Birmingham library, with curved walls of books organized by color

AI and the Library of Babel

Did Jorge Luis Borges foresee a future crafted by Artificial Intelligence? Hear me out. Two weeks ago we had a Google rep come to our workplace to demo some of Gemini’s agentic capabilities. She gave us links to some sales data, inventory stats, a code block, and a prompt. Everything was precooked, and I entered

Terrible Predictions for 2017

Now that we no longer have the Mayan calendar to kick around where can we turn for our year-end doomsday predictions? One place to start is the blood of San Gennaro. Every year the dried blood of Saint Januarius is presented in a ceremony of the Roman Catholic Church in Naples, Italy. And every year