Bots are everywhere.  Using a mix of algorithms, retailers can tailor bot messages to our interests.  With improved technology, bots are not only invading our social networks and emails, they are venturing into text messaging, an area relatively free from advertisers . (“Moving Me

Gender diversity matters and never more so than in the current election for President of the United States.  To those women who make light of gender’s importance, I’ll say again:  Wrong. (Blog 3/23/16)   Equal pay is a woman’s issue but it also plays as an economic one.�

Bots, short for robots,  generate messages daily that constitute 60 percent of web traffic. The automated programs are all over the internet.  Some run free but others wait for an “execute” command.  They come in different types like web crawlers, chat room bots, and malicious

In his essay for Foreign Affairs, Sean P. Larkin credits the explosion of surveillance technology with a new transparency in the world order. (“The Age of Transparency,” by Sean P. Larkin, Foreign Affairs May/June 2016, pg. 136.)  The ability to monitor human behavior — fro

The Dodd-Frank legislation is under assault.  Don’t look for cannon fire or sonic blasts.  It’s a quiet battle making its way through the courts and raises a small point that could topple the entire edifice.  And don’t the money lenders know it?  In 2010, the financial refor

Recently, guilt and shame were topics in a New York Times column by David Brooks (3/15/2016).  When my blog on the same issue appeared a month later, (Blog 4/25/2016), a reader emailed me a copy of those earlier remarks.  Not crucial but immediately evident was a difference in the d

Having spent 9 years in public life, I know something about that spotlight.  Politics is the one forum where one needs no credentials to chart a course for society.  One needs only to be in the right place at the right time and have access to money. The situation would be funny, as

Labiaplasty may be one of the saddest words I’ve ever heard and only just learned.  It refers to plastic surgery performed to alter the folds surrounding the female vulvae with the intent of giving them a clam-like appearance.  In the case of a birth deformity, the procedure has i

Data dumps aren’t the sole province of whistle blowers like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden.  In the name of transparency, our government unloads reams of data on a regular basis, so much so, that the search for specific information is like a forced to march though the dessert i