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As AI increasingly permeates all facets of modern life, we will be bombarded with new challenges at the same time we鈥檙e reeling from the challenges that have resulted from widespread adoption of smartphones and the proliferation of social media and online gaming that have, collectively, handicapped our youth.

It鈥檚 another presidential election year and a reminder that our country still doesn鈥檛 have a secure, nationwide e-voting system even following all the turmoil of the 2020 election. We have developed all the technologies we need in order to achieve this鈥昫ata encryption, two-factor and biometric authentication, smartphones, smart cards, cloud computing, high-speed fiber optic connectivity鈥昦nd yet here we are, four years later, with the same system.

Once upon a time, a blue planet orbited a white sun at 67,000 mph in a small solar system located at the edge of a large galaxy hurtling through the vastness of the universe鈥檚 mostly empty space at 1.3 million mph. The blue planet was billions of years old and had become home to millions of species of plants and animals that had originated and evolved out of the cosmic chaos of a long-ago exploded star. One of the animals on the blue planet eventually evolved to become a hyper-intelligent being that invented language and began naming things. This animal named itself Homo sapiens (鈥渨ise man鈥�) and called the blue planet 鈥淓arth鈥� and the galaxy it was in 鈥淭he Milky Way鈥�.

The year 2023 might be the last year I write this column.

We鈥檝e become obsessed with tracking everything. Maybe not all of us, but most of us likely track at least one or more of the following: steps per day, body weight, caloric intake, exercise routine, hours worked, sleep.

The future possibilities for our species significantly changed on Monday, July 16th 1945 at precisely 5:30 a.m. At that moment, the landscape of New Mexico鈥檚 Jornada del Muerto desert was engulfed by a flash of beautiful light brighter than a dozen suns.

American journalism started out weak in 1690 when the first newspaper, Publick Occurrences, was shut down by the British government just 4 days after its first publication.

Remember the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, commonly referred to as HIPAA?

The phrase 鈥渢ragedy of the commons鈥� was coined in 1833 by the British economist William Forster Lloyd. He used the term to describe the negative outcome鈥�

In 1965, futurist and writer Alvin Toffler coined the term 鈥渇uture shock鈥� to describe the 鈥渟hattering stress and disorientation that we induce in鈥�

The sexbots are coming. Well, not literally, not yet anyway鈥攂ut that鈥檒l happen soon enough with further advances in the fields of robotics and artificial鈥�