by Deborah Quinn | Apr 28, 2017 | Children, Education, Feminism, Gender, Politics, tech life
Vanity Fair magazine recently ran a profile of Elon Musk that focused on the ways that Musk is at odds with other tech gurus about the relative merits of artificial intelligence (AI). Musk, who thinks that A.I. is humanity’s biggest threat, is quoted as saying...
by Deborah Quinn | Jun 17, 2016 | Abu Dhabi, Children, family, tech life, The National
Let me say first that I have a bit of an internet obsession. I stay way too connected to faraway friends on Facebook and I am a too frequent visitor to Tom and Lorenzo. My books float through the ether from Amazon and land in my kindle, like Mike Teevee in Charlie and...
by Deborah Quinn | Feb 15, 2016 | Children, family, growing up, Kids, Parenting, tech life, World Moms Blog
I write for a great blog called WorldMomsBlog, which brings together writers from around the globe to talk about life in their part of the world. Sometimes, as you might imagine, events and issues are culturally specific but more often than not, there are shared...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 29, 2014 | Children, Education, Feminism, tech life, Uncategorized
So the other day I was reading The New Yorker — the actual magazine, not the tablet version. I hate reading magazines electronically. They force me to read chronologically, when for me some of the joy of reading a magazine is flipping through the pages and...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 9, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, family, growing up, Kids, NaBloPoMo, Parenting, tech life, The National
I’m still playing ketchup with nablopomo, which sounds a bit like something you’d order in a Mexican restaurant, doesn’t it? You can read today’s post in Abu Dhabi’s newspaper, where I’m writing about the eternal conflict between...
by Deborah Quinn | Nov 3, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, Books, tech life, The National
I wrote a review of Dave Eggers’ new book, The Circle, for the newspaper here, and in their quest for space, the editors cut the first line of the review. (I know–my deathless prose, snipped! Unbelievable.) Here’s the line: “I didn’t...
