Tag: intelligence

  • Are We Becoming Nature’s Very Own Cyborgs?

    Yeah, your your mom and dad deserve some credit for how much information your brain can jam in, retain and recall — and how fast.  The foundation of our ability to process information is indeed genetic. Thankfully for our children, though, despite what they’ve inherited from us, they can do a great deal to build more capacity and brain speed for themselves. Eat…

  • Big Data: A Room With No Theme

    There’s this poem by Timothy Donnelly that helped me think through some of the heavier questions regarding “big data” with which many of us are wrestling.  Of course, data isn’t going to “extinguish” the creative fires — that’s a little dramatic.  But we are indeed humbled by the struggle to reconcile the tsunami of big…