Tangents

Short micro-blog posts that are more akin to a rant from your conspiracy theory neighbor than they are thoughtful prose.

  • ChatGPT & AI – The Benefits and Dangers

    ChatGPT & AI – The Benefits and Dangers

    Reading Time: 6 minutesIt feels like you can’t open Twitter, read a news article, or watch a video clip without somebody mentioning ChatGPT and OpenAI’s latest innovations with artificial intelligence. You have the doomsayers, claiming that tools like ChatGPT are going to replace humans in the workforce and make schools obsolete, and you have the…

  • Your Data and Building a Better World

    Your Data and Building a Better World

    Reading Time: 9 minutesThese three stories depict a world in the not-so-distant future where technology has revolutionized our lives from the mundane day-to-day routines, to the broader city, state, and nationwide management of complex systems and infrastructure. Each story is meant to showcase a potential benefit of large scale data gathering and artificial intelligence systems…

  • The Internet is Ruining Apps

    The Internet is Ruining Apps

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe internet is slowly ruining apps. It’s slowly forcing more and more of our lives into the hands of a small few companies. It’s slowly removing our ability to control our own data. And it looks like it’s here to stay.