WADE RATHKE is the founder of ACORN, Chief Organizer at ACORN International, and Author of "Nuts & Bolts", "Citizen Wealth", "Global Grassroots", and "The Battle for the 9th Ward".
New Orleans When it comes to Big Tech these days, we live in their world, and they are constantly putting that fact right in our faces. Their mission seems to be to make every day Halloween. If you want their treat, though it might seem freely offered, there’s a trick somewhere embedded in …
New Orleans Remember the old saw, “how come, if you’re so smart, you aren’t rich?” These days, we need to update that question and restate it as, “how come you’re so rich that you aren’t smarter?” When you read about all the tech bros who are heavy breathers about Ayn Rand and her …
Marble Falls One big difference between artificial intelligence, dominated by computers, and human intelligence, just barely handled by people, that might give AI the edge in the future would have to do with money and how much its pursuit might mitigate rational calculations. All the headlines indicate that Silicon Valley in obsessed this …