My jaw dropped when I read it.  More than 100 million women around the world each month use free menstruation-tracking apps with names such as Flo, Glow, Ovia, and Cue.” (“A Different Conception Of Privacy,” by Naomi Kresge et al, Bloomberg Businessweek, January 28, 20.) Never

Ranchers may be getting worried.  The Cattlemen’s Association has asked the government to “’define ‘meat’ as a product ‘derived from animals.’” (“Faux Sure!” by Clive Thompson, Wired, Jan. 2019, pg. 26.) Apparently, they feel threatened by growth in the “fake”

Not long ago, a company where I’d done business for many years rejected the password to my account. Frustrated, I sent  an email, asking if there was trouble on the site. There was none.  They confirmed my password by return message.   Frankly, I was stunned.  I wasn’t aware t

Living in the real world and the virtual one may be more than my simple mind can handle.  My fear gets worse when I realize the virtual world is  split in two — between the worldwide web and the dark web. Add to that bifurcation, my need to  remember there are two kinds of mo

Over the holidays, a couple  introduced me to their son who was visiting from Boston.  As he was a young man, I asked what he did for a living.  He said he was a medical researcher and was working on a drug for multiple sclerosis.  A lump hardened in my throat as I remembered a br

One of my computer gurus ran into trouble with his machine recently.  For two days, he bent over it, wondering what went wrong inside its “little black box.”  He finally fixed the problem, but  isn’t certain why it occurred.  I shouldn’t laugh because I depend on this guy�

What frightens me about the generation that is building technologies to exploit the internet is its youth.  I fear these visionaries are too inexperienced to be left in total control.  Mark Zuckerberg’s motto, “Move fast and break things,” reflects the same rebellious attitude

A new wave of innovation is hitting cyberspace which few of us know about and fewer will probably notice —  though the effect on everyday lives will be profound.  I write of Blockchain. Blockchain “…concatenates (or chains) cryptographically verified transactions into seq

Years ago, actress Dena Dietrich, dressed in Greco-Roman garb, her dark hair encircled in a crown of daisies appeared in a commercial for Chiffon margarine. “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature,” she warned.  Then she stared into the camera, her eyebrow arched, leading us to un

Susan Stoner and I have been producing, Just Read it, a 10 minute YouTube book review series for over two years.  When I first proposed it, I doubted Susan or her cameraman husband, George, would be keen.  But they agreed to give it a try, and we’ve been having fun ever since.  W