Erasing Your Past is Impossible
More publicity for Reputation.com in the New York Times Sunday Styles section, featuring lots of people worried about unflattering information about themselves on the web. How to get rid of it? It turns out you often can’t. Once something…
Data Mining is Dumbed-Down Intelligence
The most dangerous thing about all the tracking that’s done on us over the internet is not how much computers get to know about us, but how wrong they can be. That presents a bunch of worries over those transactions (such as credit checks)…
How to Make Google Smarter
“Google has become a jungle” says The Wall Street Journal. After coming under widespread attack regarding the relevancy of its search results, it’s now common knowledge that Google searches often bring up not what are…
The Right to Privacy on the Web
What is the right level of privacy we are entitled to expect on the web? The answer is expanding and contracting by the day, but not only because legislators in Europe are attacking cookies and newspaper stories, or that people are figuring…
Watson is no Substitute for a Human Professional
As clever as Watson the computer was on Jeopardy!, computers will never be able to replace something professionals bring to their practices: the ability to think. This was hit home to me in John Searle’s brilliant reprise in the Wall Street…
