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A collection of 92 issues

Past is Prologue, and Forewarned is Forearmed

I remember clearly when I first experienced the World Wide Web (WWW). I was visiting the Toronto office of the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) during the spring of 1991, and a group of developers asked whether I’d be interested in taking a trip through cyberspace. At first, I thought

Why AI Will Not Save the World

A couple months ago, Marc Andreessen, he of the (partially) eponymous Andreessen Horowitz venture-capital behemoth, published a lengthy blog post on his company’s website extolling the attributes, capabilities, and “world-saving” virtues of artificial intelligence (AI). He actually titled the post, “Why AI Will Save the World.” (The title raises