Using AI to turn the Global Language Archive into the “Louvre of Languages”
Using AI to turn the Global Language Archive into the “Louvre of Languages” In 2012, I proposed the idea of creating a Global Language Archive. This was roughly the same time that the Endangered Languages Project was getting kicked off, which I’ll discuss in more...
Pushing the Envelope of Human Existence
Pushing the Envelope of Human Existence Having been born and raised on a small rural farm in South Dakota, I grew up with a very narrow perspective of the rest of the world. With only two TV channels and three radio stations to pick from, our news options were very...
100,000 new micro industries to be created over the next two decades
100,000 new micro industries to be created over the next two decades Every major industry today was started as a micro industry. Everything from steel, to photography, oil, airlines, electricity, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, and search engines all worked their way...
Peak electricity and 17 seismic forces of change that will make you want to shift careers
Peak electricity and 17 seismic forces of change that will make you want to shift careers It happened in 2007. Ten years ago the trajectory for electrical use in America peaked and started down a different course, declining for reasons we don’t fully understand yet....
