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AI will displace mundane tasks so far required muscles. With Federick Taylor, we’ve got job tasks de-constructed, conveyor belt resulting in the model T’s, “any color you want as long as it’s black”. Then “the rain in Spain, stays mainly in the plain” generic AI will “Repeat after me”. “Repeat after me”. Learning should be…
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For a moment, I thought I had been back to the war zone. But it’s simply opening day of Journalism 101 at Penn State, University Park. Manual typewriters, manual typing. You know the sound of cheap unmaintained buy-by-the-bulk typewriters. From there, “writers” went on to the Daily Collegian, and the lucky few, the Globe, the…
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In Cinema Paradiso, kids couldn’t wait for the opening credits to start dreaming. In my case, there were tons of kids, in open seating on open graves with projected images on neighbor’s wall. The alley zigzags and the screen was kind of slanted. Since my cousin’s home movies were a rare treat, beggar can’t be…
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CV or Eulogy version? Who and what are you? …so, this is Christmas…and what have you done? Giving or taking, contributing or exploiting? In “This is for Everyone”, Tim Bernes-Lee recounts his discovery (HTML) that places platform in everyone’s hand, “solidly” and “intentionally” (not just grab everyone’s attention to monetize). What a romantic and a…
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At work, at play or at home, one brings his/her whole being, warp and weakness, to bear. Therefore: You play long; they play short (Bill Clinton made an observation that in one’s life career, a worker has to switch jobs 7 times. Of late, I overheard 4-years was a good “run”. Do the math!). You…
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Have you noticed first slowly, then suddenly, certain things just disappeared? Hardback, softcover, large print, vinyl and boombox…just to name a few. Monuments stay. Libraries and cathedrals stay. Millionaires used to leave behind endowments for library to spread and strengthen literacy and civic education. On this note, I call on Tik Tok, Meta and Netflix…
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In ancient times, messengers/couriers had to run distance, arrive exhausted and get killed . Message-received more than often turns out different than message-perceived. Try it the next time you have a party, after a few drinks. Start a gossip, see how it takes on a life of its own unrecognizably at the other end. Even…
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It’s been fifty years since, yet that US-shaped cake with red-white-blue icing still lingers somewhere in my memory: all typewriters stopped, and all Child Welfare staff joined in “Happy Birthday”. Placing unaccompanied minors into foster care to them was just a job. To show me, unpaid interpreter, some humanity was extra. The 322-22 highway curved…
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From zero to 1. Disruptive behavior e.g. move fast, break things. West Coast upending East Coast, Palo Alto Rte 128. Tear-off jeans displace upscale jeans. “Stop-out” is the new “drop-out”. Who needs college! College? it’s where they teach you to question where technology is heading, whether it’s serving the need of humanity (the majority) or…
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Paul Tournier said, “Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets”. Those moments when we felt more like Fredo than Michael Corleone. Fredo, played by Cazale, half Irish, half Italian was at one time in a relationship with Meryl Streep (also in the Deer Hunter where she played a Vietnam draftee’s bridesmaid in a Slavic…
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