2001: A Space Odyssey was released 50 years ago, and we haven’t been back to the Moon for over 40 years.
OTOH, social media companies are developing AI systems to watch over us.
The Future Isn’t What It Used To Be
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Category Archives: The Arts
Quote of the Day
Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
—Wallace Stevens
Quote of the Day
You know though, if you steal from one person, you’re just a thief. But if you steal from everyone, that’s research.
—Tony Bennett
Quote of the Day
Which is more musical, a truck passing by a factory or a truck passing by a music school?
—John Cage
It’s Official
The Smithsonian has unveiled the official presidential portrait of Barack Obama—
Sarah Hoyt comments that it shows him “lost in the weeds.”
Just so.
Quote of the Day
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
—Orson Welles
I’m Not Making This Up, You Know
It had to happen. A service dog got loose during a performance of Cats with the result you’d expect,
