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Self-driving cars are an unambiguous social good Self-driving cars are so much better than cars driven by human beings that it doesn't seem fair to even compare them. It's like arguing that toasters are better than jamming a piece of bread on a stick and holding it over a fire
In a recent edition of The Torment Nexus, I wrote about Wikipedia, which I argued was one of the best things the internet ever created (or that we all created with the help of the internet). In my opinion, there is another thing that ranks right up there with Wikipedia on the list of great things, and that is the Internet Archive. image
Have smart glasses finally hit an inflection point? I know what many of you may be thinking now, as you read the headline of this post. You might be remembering the photo reproduced below, in which Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen (who, it must be said, has a large and rather egg-shaped head, no offense intended) is standing with Bill Maris, the head of Google Ventures, and veteran Silicon Valley investor John Doerr from Kleiner Perkins Caulfield Byers…