Category: Web/Tech
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By Selwyn Duke It was decades ago now that commentator Alan Keyes, responding to talk of “crises” (e.g., the economic crisis), added perspective. The real crisis we need worry about, he warned, is our “moral crisis.” Virtue in the people is the root of the tree. Take care of that and all else falls into place. The…
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By Selwyn Duke Here’s a point to ponder: Silicon Valley tech executives, including those from Apple and Google, have sometimes opted to send their own children to explicitly low-tech schools. Some also have raised their kids tech-free or with strictly limited screen time. These are people, too, who know technology as a baker does bread. Given this,…
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By Selwyn Duke There’s much talk today about “threats to our democracy.” Yet do you know that foreign entities such as China, Russia, and Iran are feeding mis- and dis-information to the American electorate in order to influence our political outcomes? When the USSR did this (without having social media as vehicles), it was called…
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By Selwyn Duke “Fool me once, shame on you,” the saying goes; “fool me twice, it’s AI.” Okay, that’s not really the saying, but it might be the reality with Joe Biden if his campaign acts on a leftist news organization’s advice: Use artificial intelligence (AI) to trick the public into thinking Biden is not exhibiting…
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By Selwyn Duke Despite its importance, there’s a story that’s not getting out to the public — at least not as quickly as data that should be secret is getting out to the Chinese. Many of you have heard about the supposed “hack” of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), in which the Chinese were…
