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“Future Shock” is here! I can’t add. Calculators built into iPhones do it for me. I can’t spell. Spell-check handles that. I’m not sure of the exact term to use in a computer search. Google’s “autocomplete” function reads my mind. Has Artificial Intelligence (AI) taken over for the human brain? My friend Bev Barker of [...]

When I read an article in The Washington Post about a Rockville, MD, news blog moving to Facebook, I was intrigued. In the article from June 24, Reporter Ian Shapira posed this question: “With news organizations nationwide slashing staffs, this all-volunteer blog covering a city of 61,000 poses an intriguing possibility for the future of [...]

Gene Weingarten raises this question in today’s Washington Post Magazine: “A column about nothing.” “Sometimes I feel like a voice in the wilderness, especially whenever I go into the jungle to yodel,” says Weingarten. “But it also happens when my most heartfelt columns fall on deaf ears. That’s been the case with my lonely crusade [...]