Archive for Month: October 2024

“It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.”  Jimmy Carter In an individualistic and self-indulgent culture, I was wondering what it would take to increase commitment to the common good.  A quick search turned up a book by Robert Reich, the previous secretary of labor in the Clinton administration, entitled The Common Good.  Reich Read More

In December of 2022, I attended a conference at the Harvard Executive Center in which I first learned about the stunning acceleration of AI by one of the leading computer science researchers in the world.  At that time, Chat GPT had just been released.  Since then, I started using AI to summarize the literature related to topics I was exploring.   In that short amount of time, AI has evolved with mind-blowing speed.  I’m going to Read More