Paul Root Wolpe: Kurzweil’s Singularity Prediction is Wrong

Unconsidered productivity might leave you moving efficiently in the entirely wrong direction.

The rapid crash of Nokia was triggered when key information gatekeepers became bottlenecks. Here’s the key lesson.

There are limits to where physics makes meaningful predictions: beyond the Planck length, time, or energy. Here’s why we can’t go further.

“For every PhD there is an equal and opposite PhD.”

“It’s a true fact, but a bizarre one, that the reason why hundreds of thousands of people died in Hiroshima and Nagasaki rather than Kyoto and Kokura, is because of a 19-year-old vacation and a passing cloud.”