The Future of Teaching and AI S. M. Gollmer This summer I read Dr. Jared Horvath’s book The Digital Delusion: How Classroom Technology Harms Our Kids’ Learning – and How to Help Them Thrive Again. In this book he documents how student academic performance has been impacted by screen time... View Article
Persisting in a Changing World S. M. Gollmer I am reminded how blessed I am as I read JH Baek’s post “I Have Survived 4 Tech Extinctions Since 2002 (And AI Is Number 4).” He relates that over his 24-year career he had his job “declared dead four separate... View Article
Christians and the Existential Threat of AI By S. M. Gollmer Last week, Jacob Coxon left his position at Anthropic doing pretraining research for artificial intelligence (AI). (You can find the original post here.) His main concern is that OpenAI and Anthropic, the two companies he has worked for, are... View Article
Physical Science and the Demographic Cliff S. M. Gollmer Reading the September issue of Physics Today, I came across an article by Trevor Owens titled “The decline in physics bachelor’s degrees: Contributors and consequences.” It is not surprising that he cites the demographic cliff in higher education. This cliff... View Article
Review of John C. Lennox’s Book 2084 and the AI Revolution: How Artificial Intelligence Informs Our Future By S. Gollmer (May 18, 2026) I just finished reading John Lennox’s book 2084 and the AI Revolution and found it insightful beyond an evaluation of how AI will revolutionize the world. ... View Article
Comet Viewing – Catch it While You Can S. M. Gollmer Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (C/2023 A3) is a once in a lifetime comet, actually once in a million lifetimes. It was discovered by the Purple Mountain Observatory in China over a year ago. A rough estimate of its orbital period is 10... View Article
Pragmatic Technology S. M. Gollmer Technology affects us whether we want it or not. The instrumentation of time provides a standard by which individual and societal productivity is measured. If the world were not so interconnected, it would be possible to dictate our own pace of life. However, that ideal... View Article
Technology and Diligence S. M. Gollmer In the previous post I used time as an example of how technology impacts humanity. Given that clocks reliably measure time within a fraction of a second, we can delude ourselves to think we have a comparable amount of control over it. With this... View Article
Technology and Time S. M. Gollmer To avoid the negative impact of technology I mentioned we need to ensure it does not undermine who we are experientially and socially. We begin here because I feel the root cause of the world’s problems start with us! If we tackle the perceived... View Article
Technology and Epistemology S. M. Gollmer The first step in avoiding technology’s negative impact is to recognize that it does change us. Any of us who lived part of our adult lives before the smartphone can attest to this fact. However, our children who know nothing different, being disengaged from... View Article
