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Preserving Knowledge for Human and Machine Readers
The Promise of the Digital Copy There was a time when scanning a book felt like completing the work of preservation. A shelf of aging volumes could be transferred to a hard…
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The Ego’s Last Possession
The Will That Tries to Surrender Many years ago, I encountered a short piece by Meister Eckhart entitled “On True Obedience.” Eckhart was a medieval German Dominican theologian and preacher, but his…
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What It Means to Develop AI
When a Possibility Becomes a Prophecy A technical argument can change character as it travels. It may begin as a conditional statement in a long essay, become a striking sentence in a…
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Tom Yonashiro is a writer with a background in philosophy, religion, technology, and cybersecurity marketing. He writes to translate life’s complexities into meaning.