Scott Adams: In his own words
Let’s talk about weddings first. As a lover of freedom and equal rights, I am delighted that the Supreme Court rewrote the Constitution (essentially) to give all adults the contractual and legal rights of marriage. But I couldn’t find a way to celebrate. For starters, as an old boss once…
Read MoreNearly everything I need to do for my job involves opening email. I even open email to look for ideas before drawing a comic. And this is a big problem because there is no way to look at email without getting dragged down some unrelated rabbit hole. I don’t know…
Read MoreI live in drought country (California) and this place is starting to turn into a prequel for Mad Max. Every other pickup truck on the road has huge water containers strapped to the back. That’s because the local waste water treatment plant gives away recycled water (non-drinkable) to anyone who wants…
Read More[Ignore this post. Question answered. I had accidentally unzoomed the page sometime in the past, apparently. Didn’t know Chrome can do page-only zoom. Nice! Thanks to all commenters for pointing me the right direction.] Does anyone else have trouble reading this page using Chrome on a Mac laptop? (OSX: Yosemite…
Read MoreWhat do you do if both of your parents die of AIDS? You mourn, obviously. And you wonder why the universe singled you out for such harsh treatment. Maybe you get mad. There isn’t much else you can do. Unless you’re an engineer. Then you change the world. Because you can. But…
Read MoreYou might have seen a quote on the Internet that is mistakenly attributed to me. It looks like this: “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Design is knowing which ones to keep.” – Scott Adams People like that quote so much that they have turned it into countless colorful…
Read MoreThe other day I read an article in which an “exercise scientist” said that people who exercise regularly are far more likely to keep off the weight after a diet. So…therefore…you should exercise if you want to keep the weight off. That was the implication. That doesn’t sound credible to me. I’m a…
Read MoreToday, as is often the case, I will write about a topic I do not understand. You don’t need to remind me of that fact in the comments. But I do enjoy learning, so educate me if you need to. Now let’s get to it… ISIS continues to gain ground…
Read MoreIf you live in a dictatorship, personal privacy might be the only thing keeping you out of jail. And you need that privacy to plan your revolution against the dictator. If you live in a Republic, such as the United States, you still want some privacy because you don’t want…
Read MoreIt won’t be long before all new drugs are discovered by robots. This start-up is an example of that trend. And it won’t be long before IBM’s Watson can diagnose and prescribe treatments better than any human doctor. Put those two trends together and robots will be programming humans with drugs. Drugs are the…
Read MoreAs regular readers of this blog already know, when computers learn to program themselves (and that will happen) they will quickly acquire so much knowledge and capability that humanity will be threatened. Experts predict it could happen in a few decades. The official name for that situation is the Technical Singularity….
Read MoreIf your firewall is blocking the image, see it here on Twitter. In Top Tech Blog: An artificial leg that feels the floor. What? And how about a car that won’t let you drive if you are drunk? That’s useful, but what we really need is a phone that won’t let you text when…
Read MoreUnless you live in an unusual place, at least a third of your adult friends, coworkers, and neighbors have some sort of mental illness that is being treated by big pharma and/or big alcohol. If that sounded high to you, just add together the folks with alcohol problems (about 10-20%…
Read MoreIf your firewall blocks the image, see it on Twitter here. In Top Tech Blog, now you can grow limbs in a laboratory and someday transplant them. This gets us one step closer to every male scientist’s dream of having a spare girlfriend at the lab. Soon your password will be your brain. But beware…
Read MoreThe other day I was walking through a big hotel in San Diego, on my way to give a keynote speech for a corporate event. I was the only person at the conference without an ID badge and I wondered how hard it would be to talk my way past…
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