Adam Z. Lein

Smart or intelligent? Graphic with Cortana AI hologram standing on smartphone.

When will smartphones be intelligent?

On October 14, 2017 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

Many tech businesses these days are investing heavily in developing artificial intelligence, and with good reason. Artificial intelligence can potentially evolve much more quickly than human intelligence and therefore find solutions to problems much more efficiently. We’re not quite there yet though. In fact it may be a few decades before we get any artificial intelligent constructs that can match the general intelligence of humans… well, some humans. Right now we’ve got some basic constructs …

Chronicles of a Windows user gone iPhone (2017)

On September 28, 2017 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

If you’ve been following Pocketnow for almost 20 years, you may remember when we did numerous series of articles where one of us as an expert in one platform, would switch to a different platform that we had never used and chronicle our experiences. I haven’t used an iPhone as a daily driver ever, and haven’t really used iOS much since iOS 4, but I have had to help friends and colleagues set up …

Adam using a phone with a question mark in a thought bubble.

Why are we still using instant messaging apps at all?

On January 27, 2017 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

This article was first published on Pocketnow JANUARY 27, 2017 8:34 AM A while back, you may have seen Adam Doud’s article “A weekend with Allo: When tech geeks unite!” where a bunch of us tech geeks used Google’s new instant messaging app Allo to keep in touch while wandering New York City. I didn’t use it though because my newest Android phones either won’t turn on (HTC One) or don’t have any non-WiFi active …

8 ways to tell if your mobile app sucks

On August 24, 2014 By Adam Z. Lein In Tech

It’s easy to tell if an app sucks when there are issues with its basic functionality. If it crashes all the time, or causes the phone to freeze, or just doesn’t respond to certain functions, that’s a pretty obvious problem and we all know how to inform the developers of those issues in the app store reviews. However, there are lots of really poor design decisions that are common-place in today’s smartphone apps. For some …

Philosophy of THE MATRIX: RELOADED

On May 22, 2003 By Adam Z. Lein In Philosophy

Here are my ideas on the Matrix Reloaded movie. A lot of people find it confusing and decided that it is only an eye-candy film simply because it is hard to understand. I’ve found that this movie is a very strong compliment to the original and it shows that the “rabbit hole” goes a lot deeper than Morpheus ever knew. So for those who haven’t seen the movie, stop reading now! Unless you don’t really …

LIFE AND STRUCTURE

On March 5, 1998 By Adam Z. Lein In Philosophy

Numerous philosophers have sought to develop a plausible and effective account for the structure of human life. Er, rather… an account of human life as a single entity. This is inherently difficult since there is no way to take into account all human life; past, present, future, here, there, and everywhere. Some, such as Plato, Carr, Jaspers, and Keen, have attempted such an account based on simply their own individual observations, learnings, and experiences. …