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A is for ‘Artificial’

February 18, 2023 by Dave Knadler

You’ve probably heard about the New York Times reporter who was creeped out by his conversation with Microsoft’s new chatbot.  The reporter kept pressing questions to which there was no factual answer, and the chatbot eventually started returning responses that, if uttered by a person, would seem kind of ominous. That includes professing love […]

Filed Under: american life, internet, luddite rants, Movies, social media

It’s all junk, eventually

May 8, 2015 by Dave Knadler

Awhile back, I almost bought one of those Keurig machines. My brother and his wife have one and I was impressed by how conveniently it could brew a good cup of coffee. Never mind that I already have a decent coffee maker and drink about five cups a day; those shiny new Keurigs kept […]

Filed Under: american life, business, luddite rants

A minor case of iPad fatigue

March 7, 2012 by Dave Knadler

I sat out the iPad. Took a pass on the iPad 2. Can’t really see getting The New iPad either. I guess what I’m really waiting for the Last Best iPad, the one so perfectly grand that I won’t have to stand in line with the rest of the saps to replace it a […]

Filed Under: luddite rants, Media, Other Stuff

For those about to Twitter …

June 29, 2008 by Dave Knadler

I was on the Internet long before AOL, embraced e-mail in its infancy, put up a few web pages when you still had to know some basic HTML to do it. I’ve had online photo albums for years, I’m still slogging away with this dumb blog and I even flirted briefly with Facebook. So […]

Filed Under: luddite rants, twitter

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