Mark Schatzker on Flavor and Food

Mark Schatzker on Flavor and Food

The Dorito Effect author Mark Schatzker describes what he learned about the relationship between flavor and nutrition, and how the food industry has been leading us astray.

By Art Keller | April 5, 2017 | Agriculture, Food, Genetics, Health, Well-Being | Artificial Flavor, Blandness, Breeding, Carotendoids, Cattle, Chemicals, Chicken, Deliciousness, Doritos, Flavor, Food, Food Science, Garden Gem, Genetic Engineering, Harry Klee, Heirloom Chicken, Heirloom Tomatoes, Industrial Farming, Julia Child, Mark Schatzker, Natural Flavor, Nutrition, Obesity, Omega-3, Strawberries, Supermarkets, Taste, The Dorito Effect, Tomatoes, Vitamins

The Perpetual Line-Up: Interview With Clare Garvie

In October, the Center on Privacy and Technology at Georgetown Law released The Perpetual Line-Up, a comprehensive report about the [...]

By Art Keller | December 7, 2016 | Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Law, Policing, Privacy, Security | ACLU, Anonymity, Biometric Data, Chicago Police, Constitution, Crime, Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Driver's Licenses, Facebook, Facial Recognition, FBI, First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Freddy Gray, Freedom of Information Act, Geofeedia, Georgetown, Instagram, LAPD, Law Enforcement, Maryland, Michigan, Next Generation Identification System, NYPD, surveillance, Surveillance Cameras, Transparency, Twitter, West Virginia

Why America Needs Technoskepticism

With the presidential election turning on economic issues, Art Keller points out that neither party addressed the major cause of today’s inequality and job insecurity, nor has any plan to deal with it now. Hint: it isn’t trade.

By Art Keller | November 30, 2016 | Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Economics, Employment, Politics, Society | Donald Trump, Erik Brynjolfsson, Hillary Clinton, Manufacturing, Michael Hicks, NAFTA, self-driving cars, TPP, Unemployment, Wages

Inhuman Resources

Like many writers, I have spent literally months, if you add up the hours over the last ten years, filling [...]

By Art Keller | October 12, 2016 | Automation, Economics, Employment | CRM, Filters, Forbes, HR, Human Resources, Jasmit Kaur, Kara Volpe, Liz Ryan, Management, Microsoft, Personnel, Silos

Podcast #5: David Krakauer on Tech, Cognition, and Social Systems

David Krakauer is President and Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute, a private, not-for-profit, independent research and education center, where he focuses on the evolutionary history of information processing mechanisms in biology and culture. He sat down with The Technoskeptic to talk about the idea of complementary vs. competitive cognitive artifacts—that is, how technologies extend or supress our own capabilities.