From a Darwinian perspective — ‘With artificial intelligence, we are summoning the demon.’ ~ Elon Musk After Open AI launched Chat GPT to the public in 2020, AI (Artificial Intelligence) moved quickly up the leaderboard to join NFT, Crypto, Remote Work, and Metaverse on the list of most used technology buzzwords. Enthusiasts praised the potential…

A Story Thread — A Short Story by Five 6th Graders Continuing a Story Thread From Where the Last Person Stopped. Each paragraph represents each writer’s entry. I walked into the classroom one day only to be greeted by the ghost of Garmadon … and it looked hungry. …

On love, attachment, and evil — The desire to have the object of one’s desire all to oneself at the expense of the object’s essence is evil. It is not love at all. It is what makes us … cage the bird that sings such a pleasant tune that we want to hear it day and…

I’m sure you’ve seen those internet articles. What if you bought Amazon at $18? A little-known company at the time (at least to the rest of the world) Amazon Inc. founded by Jeff Bezos who no longer needs introduction, went public on May 15, 1997 at $18.00 per share. If…

If only you can remember — Hitherto Your new world is strange. There are many things to absorb as you grow within it. You are in the womb but you don’t know this. All you know are the things you can feel and see in this world. In time, you become familiar with the things that live…

Hold the thought … — I am in my 30s, and my teenage years were the most colorful phase of my life. I had a guitar I never fully learned to play; I could plunk out weary chords on a piano; I was in architecture school, and could stay awake for 72 straight hours watching…

First off, this is not a paid promotion for Reader’s Digest. Secondly, no words were harmed in the making of this article. September 2023 “Every time I spoke to their virtual versions, it struck me that I could have been talking to my real parents instead.” I arrive at the library early…

Having been conditioned to Google searches and Wikipedia learning over the years, not only is how I access information from the knowledge of the world changing, but my neural and cognitive processes are changing as well. I’ve evolved from being the young man who read all the books, often repeatedly…

Seasons of Wrath — Once Upon A Time Many years ago, when men and beast and forest were one, and our kind could hear the voices of the trees, there lived a man and his wife and their infant son. At the time, the Iroko tree was the most revered of all trees because the spirits of our…