Amazon’s HQ2 Is Immoral
By MATT SHAPIRO When Amazon announced the result of their search for cities to host their HQ2 expansion, I’ll confess the result was a bit of a surprise to me. I live in Seattle,...
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Stone the Algorithms
By MATT SHAPIRO In 2010, convicted murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner was shot to death. We’ll never know who killed Gardner because the identity of the gunmen is protected by the state of Utah because...
The Next Evolution of Humanity (w/ Jonathan Crabb): Paradox Podcast Episode 83
Futurist Jonathan Crabb returned this week to talk about the growing market for a transhuman retirement plan as well as the role of ethics in the world of social media. “The future is coming...
What’s Wrong with Education and Why You Can Skip High School (w/ Sonya Mann): Paradox Podcast Episode 78
Tech reporter Sonya Mann joins us this week to talk about why “Smart Kids Should Skip High School” and what cryptocurrency and AI mean for society. Who needs high school? No … really. Is it...
Print Your Blog
By MATT SHAPIRO This summer while visiting my parents, my mother gave me a piece of wood. It’s not an impressive piece of wood, just a slab with a lip on either side extending...
Social Media Knows Your Kids’ Faces and Lives. Is That Safe?
If you’re not the type of parent who would ruin your kid’s (financial) good name by using their information to sign up for a bunch of credit cards, you also shouldn’t be using their names and lives online to get likes, comments and shares.
The Myth of the Hustle
None of this is going to make me rich or even make me marginally more attractive to an employer. That was another lie.
The Tribes of Climate Change
By MATT SHAPIRO This last week, I had a small conversation with Jason Emory Parker about climate change. I would say Emory is on “the left” and I’m on “the right” on this issue, but we...
Robots Need Grace Too
Within 24 hours of “her” big launch on Twitter and other social messaging platforms, Tay (the AI bot developed by Microsoft researchers*) learned all sorts of things from us humans. Primarily that we are awful.
‘The World Doesn’t End Without Facebook.’ Can Confirm, I Quit.
I killed my Facebook account in February and I feel pretty good.
My data’s completely inaccessible (to me at least, who knows what Zuckerberg can still do with it), since I outlasted Facebook’s two-week “You sure about this?” grace period.