Our neighbor is gone. It was out of the blue, so sudden we were still attempting to carry on email conversations with her. Her silence…
Beautiful Invisibility Posts
Bed, Breakfast, and Besetting Change
Posted in Ethical Technology, History, and Ideological Intolerence
On my 70th birthday, I am on my way to Pacific Grove with my wife Sheryl. The West Coast town has been my favorite vacation…
In 2017, I traveled back to Allentown, Pennsylvania, to lay my mother to rest. As we visited places I had known during my childhood, I…
Anamnesis, Part 3: The Perfidy of Presentism
Posted in Anamnesis, Ancestry, and Ideological Intolerence
California is home to the most recognized of oldest living things in the world, the Giant Sequoia. If you visit the grove in Muir Woods…
The Presence Beneath the Paving Stones
Posted in History, and Ideological Intolerence
I always wanted to return to Paris. As a four-year-old, my memories of the City of Light were not sustainable. Then in 2014, I got…
“I wished I had asked, before it was too late.” How many of us have heard this? How many of us have said this? How…
What does it mean to be remarkable? Merriam-Webster defines remarkable as: “Worthy of being or likely to be noticed especially as being uncommon or extraordinary”…
Two Tales of One Future
Posted in Artificial Inteligence, Ethical Technology, and History
Digital technology is omnipresent in our lives, pushing in ever closer to our very being. Some say it will destroy us. Others say it will…
It was an early May morning of 1933 in San Francisco and Mr. Hagashi was crossing over Russian Hill on his way to his job…
My ship, the ship of my origin, didn’t come in. I went to her. Her name is the RMS Queen Mary and when I first…
Klara and the Sun
Posted in Artificial Inteligence, and Ethical Technology
I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s latest novel, Klara and the Sun, in only four days. It was loaned to me from a friend who knows well…
It is often said: “You die twice. First when you stop breathing. Second when somebody mentions your name for the last time.” The origin of…
The real story of my parents’ courtship was hidden in plain sight — under layers and layers of stuff. By the time we moved my…
In 2015, the ghost in the glass came to me after we cleared my parents’ home. When I saw him, I immediately recognized him. The…
Make the Seen Unseen, and By Doing So, Beautiful
Posted in Delight, and User Workflow
“Do not think of it as a weapon. Make it part of your hand – part of your arm. Make it part of you.” — Lieutenant…
User Experience’s Dark Side Raises Ethical Stakes
Posted in Deception by Design, Deceptive Practices, and Leveraging Cognitive Psychology
“If you choose the quick and easy path, as Vader did, you will become an agent of evil.” — Master Yoda In George Lucas’ epic screen…