“Ditch the GPS. It’s ruining your brain,” writes M. R. O’Connor in a recent Washington Post editorial. O’Connor is the author of Wayfinding: The Science…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #650: Your GPS is bad for you, but it’s not going away
Can you imagine the world without YouTube? Certainly, if I asked my teenage son to try that exercise, he’d look at me like I belong…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #649: As YouTube grows, so do its problems
As the news about Huawei reported in last week’s 4cast continues to unfold, it does so against a backdrop of other stories where technology and…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #648: Can a new branch of diplomacy help cyber warfare?
Huawei has been all over the news recently. Huawei is a very large Chinese telecommunications company, which provides network infrastructure to a great deal of…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #647: Huawei is in a lot of hot water. Can it recover?
This last week, among the usual product announcements, IPOs, cybersecurity warnings, and so on, were sprinkled several stories orbiting around the problem of content control:…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #646: Digital censorship battles are just getting started
Last Christmas, a relative sent my teen son a drone as a gift. It was easily the highlight of his presents under the tree, and…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #645: From organs to clean energy, drones deliver
One of the initiatives included in the next budget for the state of Ohio is a proposal to provide “microdegrees” for in-demand fields, quickly giving…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #644: Maybe you have a degree, but do you have a ‘microdegree?’
The fire at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris last week stunned and devastated many people around the world. I know that I was among millions…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #643: Can technology resurrect Notre Dame from the ashes?
There’s little doubt that 5G internet speeds have been hyped a lot recently. The U.S. is just beginning to see this new type of network,…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #642: Is 5G nothing but hype and hurdles?
To date, Big Tech has not been having a great 2019. It’s now commonly acknowledged that too few of these companies have too much influence…
Read MoreOPLIN 4Cast #641: Is regulating Big Tech a Herculean task?