Dear PostModern Gandhiji: A decade ago, when I was a first-year medical student, I worried that modern medicine and pharmacology were based on animal products. I had been raised in a strictly vegetarian Jain household and had been taught to respect all living...
AI is widely misunderstood and still too rudimentary for us to be worrying. But it’s not too soon to contemplate the ethical implications of intelligent machines and systems. An AI system is only as good as the data it receives. It is able to interpret them only...
A compelling thread of history is the power of ideas and their ability to shape the world around us. The power of ideas could not be more evident than in the Silicon Valley. Computer processing power has increased with the invention of the silicon transistor and...
I answered the call from an unfamiliar phone number. The voice at the other end threatened to turn the lights off on me for 5 to 7 days. I thought it was a hoax. Then it sent me an email saying the same thing. I peered at the address looking for fraud. My husband...
Ever so often I’m caught off guard by a question posed by my child. It has the quality of a zap to my system – like that of a rusty car battery being jump started out of its cold slumber. This was one of those moments. Coming off of a hectic few weeks...
” I cannot find Jai!” I wailed to my husband. “What kind of a mother am I? I cannot find my own son!” We were standing in front of a wall of student artwork at Stenwood Elementary. The first-graders had drawn pictures titled, “Who Am I?” and now their parents...
