Mar 12, 2020 | HPE Insights
It is getting very hard to hide who we truly are in an AI-enabled world. In fact, some of our favorite companies are using AI to evaluate us right now. You have but to look at social media and your mother’s text messages to know that people judge you all the...
Mar 2, 2017 | HPE Insights
Technology is outpacing the language’s ability to evolve. Case in point: these analogies that bear only the slightest resemblance to the gizmos that spawned them. At 48, I’m too old to be “wet behind the ears” and too young to be “older than the hills.” But I...
Feb 12, 2006 | Intergalactic Medicine Show
Yael Sela-Shapiro did not wake up one morning and say, “I think I’ll translate English science fiction into Hebrew” — but after passing a test given by a small translation agency, it happened just the same. Armed with a slew of dictionaries and...
Nov 1, 2004 | Strange Horizons
The Oxford English Dictionary has just become bigger—and weirder. Now the OED wants you to volunteer your time and your book collection to add science fiction-based words to the dictionary. And when the 20-volume OED speaks, it uses all the words in the English...
