I spent one afternoon in 2014 wandering the underground concourse stretching from Tokyo’s Shiodome to the old Shimbashi station. It took me less than half hour to get to Shimbashi station; it took one and a half hours to find my way back. I realized that I wasn’t quite as good as I had thought at throwing down my mental bread crumbs as I wandered from my hotel. I had somehow gotten turned around as they say, heading southeast when I thought I was going northwest. As I made my way through the maze, up and do
As humans, we spend a lot of time and energy relocating ourselves. If we want to construct a new building or start a new company we need to locate and assemble a group of people suited for the various tasks that make up the larger project at hand. Not only to we need to do this initially but this becomes a recurring activity. As our project progresses we may find that we need additional resources. We may find that some of our resources are not performing as expected and need to be replaced. These organizati
Machines don’t have these problems, at least not the same way humans do. Of course they break down from time to time, but in general they perform consistently. They don’t need to commute to the office every day only to return home at night. As a matter of fact in many cases they are capable of working 24 hours a day, seven days a week. In the movie Blade Runner, like many sci-fi flicks, the machines known as Replicants were in many ways superior to humans, almost flawless in their physical abilities and at