Precedents are Powerful Things

There’s a darling children’s book called “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.” In it, there’s a cute exploration of how that mouse will continue asking for things that go along with cookies and would be oh-so-reasonable to provide…or unreasonable to deny him. After all, what good’s a cookie without a glass of milk? I’ve …

Computer, I want…

Ahh, Star Trek… one of my favorites for several reasons.  What fun it would be to schedule holographic vacations where you could take trips to anywhere and dance with computer-generated figures of just the right build and character…  Then you could sit down to an actual meal of generated lobster with perfectly grilled asparagus…  What …