The Singularity Is Near
When Humans Transcend Biology This is a long overdue review, especially since it’s been almost two months since I finished reading Ray Kurzweil’s signature piece. Kurzweil has been bashed, laughed at, and called a lunatic many times over, but his book speaks for itself. There are facts, statistics, and scientific laws that provide plentiful proof [...]
Customer Service, TiVo, & New Career Idea
I just got off the phone with a guy from India who works for Amazon’s customer service department. Yes, I asked where he was from. I think it was because I’ve been reading The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman. And reading all about the outsourcing of [...]
Spring Semester 2007 & Worries
My first day back to school. In just a few short hours I’ll have to wake up and go to my first class of my last semester. I’ll admit, I feel unprepared for what lies ahead in the coming months and the coming years. Maybe not entirely unprepared, but worried nonetheless. My life, up to [...]
