My thoughts in the intersection of design, cognitive science, social psychology, philosophy, and ethics.
Straightforward musings as well as some short fiction / thought experiments, when they serve best.
In 2017 alone, Amazon’s Alexa received over one million marriage proposals. You might imagine that most of these were jokes, you know—Alexa, will you marry me? Ha ha—but you might also agree it’s interesting that we seem far less likely to ask this—even as a joke—of the average dishwasher or calculator. The public lamented for NASA’s Curiosity Rover…
Read MoreThe woman with the beautiful hair trailed a finger over the cool and unyielding edge of the dark alloy that cased the most advanced memory system in the world. She did this with a slowness of speed and warmth of gaze that could only be called reverence.
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