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A Driverless Future for our Cities

Posted September 28th, 2016 at 10:27 am (UTC-5)
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[H]ow will widespread deployment of the self-driving cars on display in Pittsburgh affect how we build cities? And how did Pittsburgh — a midsized former steel manufacturing city that suffered through severe deindustrialization in the late 20th century — become the research lab and test bed for this revolutionary technology?

Don’t Turn Away From the Art of Life

Posted February 25th, 2016 at 12:09 pm (UTC-5)
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The regime of information may well sport its specific truths, but it is locked out of the associations, subjective but also moral and philosophical, that bathe all literature. A new technology like GPS provides us with the most efficient and direct route to a destination, but it presupposes we know where we are going.