More than once I have made the observation that Alan Turing used the philosophical foil of Solipsism in his seminal paper the Imitation Game to argue the point that we cannot fully nor completely specify what it means for a…

I believe in belief. A full essay on that particular statement I will save for a future blog entry. For the moment, suffice it to say that I believe that belief itself is a critical aspect of reality — perhaps…

The idea of technology-based telepathy has been around for a long time. Ever since the first written language, we have developed technology that allows for the expression of thoughts without the need to vocalize them. We started transmitting thoughts silently…

In November of last year I conducted a simple experiment, wondering if activity level on github could be a predictive factor in open source framework adoption. So I grabbed data from github APIs from several large organizations and played with…

From 2005 through 2014 I taught a number online courses for the University of Phoenix including MBA Capstone projects, Business Strategy for graduate students and undergraduate Java programming. One of the discussion questions I used during that phase was that…

Can you imagine a manufactured device that can serve as a storage upgrade for your brain? Your memories off-loaded to one or more backup mirrors as needed? No? Well such a device now appears to be in the human trials…