Month: January 2026
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The Future of the Post Office
As the first month of 2026 comes to an end, we’re adding one more entry to our Future Bucket List: the end of the Post Office. Technology giveth and technology taketh away. Cars replaced horses and buggies. Digital music replaced CDs which had replaced records. Email replaced letters. A graph of first-class cards and letters…
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Space on the Bucket List
While we were reviewing the past year, and adding a couple A.I. items to our Future Bucket List, we came up with one more. Going to space. As in “Priscilla and Alan go to space.” Current Future Bucket List technologies include “People on the Moon (again)” and “People on Mars,” but Priscilla and Alan are…
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The Future of A.I.
We missed adding the current “version” of A.I. to our Future Bucket List, but we are going ahead and adding two related entries on what a Future A.I. might look like. Both of these Future items were envisioned well before the present “A.I. boom” and should have been on the list already: The Singularity is…
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A Brief Personal History of A.I.
Maybe one of the reasons we missed A.I. on our Future Bucket List is that, like fusion, it was one of those technologies that was always coming, but never quite here. Until it was. Alan got his first exposure to something called A.I. through Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason. In particular…
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Happy New Year
Happy New Year! And happy one-year anniversary of the start of this blog. 2025 is now part of the Past. 2026 is now the Present, and the Future. This first blog post of 2026 includes a cautionary tale: attempts to have A.I. create the above graphic failed miserably. Mainly A.I. insisted that the scene in…
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