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CD/DVD/BD Discs vs. Streaming
by James Wallace Harris, 6/29/23 I recently wrote “The Emerging Mindset of Not Owning Movies” about converting my DVD/BD collection to digital files so I could stream through Plex. But I soon realized...
View ArticleMemories Imagine the Darndest Things
by James Wallace Harris, 7/10/23 This essay is about remembering something that never happened and the theories I’ve developed to explain my memory hallucination. While reading The Kindly Ones by...
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I Wish All My Family and Friends Blogged, I Wish Everyone Blogged
by James Wallace Harris, 7/16/23 What if everyone who ever lived kept an indestructible diary. Imagine reading what all our ancestors thought throughout their lifetimes. I don’t believe in an...
View ArticleThinking Outside of Our Heads
by James Wallace Harris I believe recent developments in artificial intelligence prove that many of the creative processes we thought came from conscious actions come from unconscious mechanisms in...
View ArticleIs Ethical Capitalism Even Possible?
by James Wallace Harris, 10/20/23 This month, several of my friends have separately expressed doubt about the future. I don’t hold much hope either. Our current world civilization seems to be falling...
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Democracy Awakening by Heather Cox Richardson – Review Part One
by James Wallace Harris Americans have general thought of America as a democracy, although it’s never been a true democracy. When the United States of America was first created a limited number of...
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Reading Comprehension: Books vs. Audiobooks
by James Wallace Harris, 1/3/24 At 72, I’m still learning how to read. I recently finished the audiobook of The Simulacra by Philip K. Dick and started to write a review for my science fiction blog....
View ArticleI’m Too Dumb to Use Artificial Intelligence
by James Wallace Harris, 1/19/24 I haven’t done any programming since I retired. Before I retired, I assumed I’d do programming for fun, but I never found a reason to write a program over the last ten...
View ArticleHow Anne Got Phished and What We Should Learn from Her Experience
by James Wallace Harris, 2/2/24 My friend Anne called me the other day terribly upset. Her bank had just called her to say her account had been hacked. She was worried that her computer was the tool...
View ArticleChatGPT Isn’t an Artificial Intelligence (AI) But an Artificial...
by James Wallace Harris, 2/12/24 This essay is for anyone who wants to understand themselves and how creativity works. What I’m about to say will make more sense if you’ve played with ChatGPT or have...
View ArticleA Painful Challenge to My Ego
James Wallace Harris, 2/26/24 I’m hitting a new cognitive barrier that stops me cold. It’s making me doubt myself. I’ve been watching several YouTubers report on the latest news in artificial...
View ArticleWill People Change vs. Can People Change?
by James Wallace Harris, 2/28/24 I just finished listening to The Deluge by Stephen Markley, a book that speculates on what the next sixteen years could be like. The book is almost nine hundred pages...
View ArticleI Gleaned Two Useful Bits of Wisdom from YouTube This Morning
by James Wallace Harris, 3/18/24 The first insight applies to internet addiction. I constantly check several apps on my iPhone all day, and regularly browse YouTube on my television. It’s gotten to be...
View ArticleHow To End Identity Theft
by James Wallace Harris, 3/31/24 The reason we have identity theft is it’s easy to pretend to be someone else with just a credit card number, a password, and a bit of trickery. Because we no longer...
View ArticleWe’re Never Going to Change
by James Wallace Harris, 4/15/24 Years ago, I read This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein. It was a passionate plea to act on climate change because if we didn’t everything would change. Her new book,...
View ArticleWhy I Deleted Facebook and Twenty Other Apps from My iPhone
by James Wallace Harris, 4/21/24 Lately, I’ve been encountering numerous warnings on the dangers of the internet and smartphones. Jonathan Haidt is promoting his new book The Anxious Generation. Even...
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