If you only read one piece this year on technology and what it is, where it's going and where it may or may not go and take us, you should read this.

Will Democracy Survive Big Data
and Artificial Intelligence
It has far, far more in it than I could ever describe here.
It is both fascinating and alarming, at once.
Governments will no way be able to keep up with technology. Heck, they're already far, far behind.
Governments will no way be able to keep up with technology. Heck, they're already far, far behind.
I would like--heck, I want--every member of our national, US Congress to read this, let alone our state legislators and office holders.
All the things called for in the article would have to be done by government, of course. It would have to be done by far-seeing, responsible legislators.
I don't see it happening.
I'd love to be wrong.
I don't see it happening.
I'd love to be wrong.
God help us all.
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