Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Ok, after the da Vinci System that uses robotics to conduct surgeries this many not seem like such a feat, but think again. While da Vinc...

So the new Apple Watch promises to monitor our every virtual health status as technology and person blend to become one.   However, th...

Pew Research reports that by 2025, "Robotic sex partners will be commonplace." While I certainly understand loving (new helpf...

Jeff Bezos of Amazon is one very smart guy and when he announces that he is interested in drones delivering your next online order that ma...

The real cloud computing is not where we are today. Utilizing infrastructure and apps on demand is only the beginning.  What IBM has e...

Good video from The Atlantic on automation and the concern about Robots taking our jobs. From the 1800's, when "the Luddites,...

Ray Kurzweil the famous futurist is an amazing person, but like everyone he has his good and bad days. When it comes to the Singularity-...

So recently, I saw the movie Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise who plays a wealthy playboy who has everything, but has a horrible disfiguring ...

This is a cool video by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) on project Phoenix--which is a robot that can repair satellit...

Here are three crafty ideas for improving our cyber security that can be used to protect, prevent, and recover from attacks: 1)  Intru...

Don't get too comfortable in your job. Yes, the economic realities of high spending are about to catch up with the country and tha...

I am not talking about socialism or totalitarianism, but about computers and artificial intelligence. For a long time, we have see...

Meet Octavia, a new firefighting robot from the Navy's Laboratory for Autonomous Systems Research (LASR) in Washington, D.C. Octavia...

There is an article today in the Wall Street Journal (10-11 March 2012) about how an Anybot Robot attended a wedding party in Paris dre...

I watched this amazing video of two Chatbots (virtual robots) conversing using artificial intelligence. The most amazing part of their conv...

Futurist, Ray Kurzweil laid out his vision for a time when artificial intelligence surpasses the pure human kind--this he called The ...

With IBM's Watson beating the pants off Jennings and Rutter in Jeopardy, a lot of people want to know can computers can really thi...

SHIFT HAPPENS (a.k.a. "Did You Know?") are a series of terrific videos that illuminate the amazing times of social and technologi...

The Wall Street Journal this week (17 February 2011) had a scary and thought-provoking editorial called “ Is Your Job an Endangered Species ...

Time Magazine (10 February 2011) has an interesting article called “ 2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal .” No, this is not about the typ...