Blog Archive

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

09. Huge Success

Geezer Jon,

How will I know when I'm successful?  What should it feel like?

-JPS

08. Space

08. Space

Oh deary me,

How’s space travel in 2049?  Have we even aspired to Clarke’s vision of 2001?

-JPS

07. Arrested Development

Dear Jon,


Will I ever grow up, or will I be forever forced to feign maturity?


-JPS

06. The Twist

Dear Jon,

Since you're contacting me, can I take comfort in the fact that I cannot and will not die for the foreseeable future?

-JPS

Friday, March 25, 2011

05. The Stupid Epidemic

Dear Jon,

Are most people smarter or dumber in the future?

Jon (2011).

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

04. Procrastination

Dear Me (now I sound really old),

I appear to have screwed myself into a homework-hole yet again.  Will I ever grow out of pushing my responsibilities to the very last minute - and sometimes beyond - or am I doomed to a temporized...doom?

-JPS (2011)

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

03. Jeopardy!

Dear Jon,

Now that computers have triumphed over man in the greatest intellectual arena devised by man - Jeopardy! - where does artificial intelligence go from here?  And should we fear it?  

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

- JPS (2011)