月份: 2021 年 10 月

Will running apps and fitness gear help or distract from my training?

Running is in my family’s blood. My dad completed two 100-milers, several 50-milers, and 51 marathons, including two Boston Marathons. My uncle Tim continues to knock out ultramarathons, and he’s well into his 70s. My cousin Colton kicked ass as a sprinter, and my sister still casually runs 10Ks when she’s not lawyering.

I never fought my destiny to be a runner. Along with four years of cross-country, I ran the 800 and 1600 meters in track throughout high school, eventually breaking the 5-minute mile mark. Since then, I joined some local running clubs and ran as many races as I could afford to keep my edge, though I’m nowhere close to high school form these days.

Staying in running shape is tough with demanding work, COVID-19, and the lure of video games to hold you back.

The last 18 months have been tough for my physical (and mental) fitness. Running while masked, without a fellow group of runners to keep …

Artificial Intelligence is the best and worst thing that’s ever happened to our daily lives.

I’m what a lot of people used to call a futurist. Not the science fiction writer kind of futurist, but the guy who recognized early on that when technology really started booming in the late 20th century everything was going to change. I naively hoped that everything would change for the better, but we all have dreams when we’re young that get crushed as time goes by.

But tech has changed the world in almost every way, and it affects every one of us every day. The next big leap in tech, which we’ve already seen and watched blossom, is AI. AI is neither artificial nor intelligent, no matter what the name implies. But it’s here to stay — and it’s going to become a more significant part of the everyday products that shape our world.

AI is a fancy word for a novel way to program a computer. Whether in your phone, watch, or a giant server room deep under a mountain, computer parts can not …