by David Brooks | Aug 25, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
WMUR reports (here) that a medical flight from a motorcycle accident in New Ipswich stayed on the ground for 10 minutes because a drone was flying nearby. Officials said they believe the drone operator saw the helicopter land and then put the drone up to investigate. ...
by David Brooks | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Kenzie Academy, an online boot-camp-style school for coding that was built to disrupt the stodgy old college model, has been disrupted by the next iteration of change in the field: A.I. Generative models like ChatGPT are pretty good at coding, at least superficially,...
by David Brooks | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
Vermont’s statewide utility Green Mountain Power has been given permission to life the cap on its home-battery program, reports Canary Media. Customers who opt for the Powerwall pay the utility $55 per month for use of the battery, with no money down. The...
by David Brooks | Aug 24, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
CleanTechnica is a well-respected news site that focuses on energy and climate. It used to have much of a Tesla fancruft but has gotten much more balanced. It runs occasional pieces by outsiders and today it’s got one titled “Climate—& A Cautionary...
by David Brooks | Aug 23, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
When it comes to medical breakthroughs, my mind has always taken a techno-futuristic turn, as you would expect from the name of this column. We need swallowable robot pills! 3D-printed human tissue! Manipulated DNA! Then everything will be better. This approach is...
by David Brooks | Aug 21, 2023 | Blog, Newsletter
In 1929, American writers Willie and Katie Seabrook took time off from palling around with Ernest Hemingway in France to visit West Africa, where they gathered material for his travel book and her children’s books. While they were being escorted by officials from what...