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 | Jan 30, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, tech life
To recap: iPhone iFell to the iCement, screen smashed, time to replace phone lest shards of glass eat their way into my eardrums. I take myself to the Etisalat kiosk to buy a new phone. I am pleasantly surprised that there is no line. The nice woman at the counter...
by Deborah Quinn | Jan 30, 2013 | Abu Dhabi, expat, technorati, UAE
So this happened: Did you know the sound of an iPhone screen hitting cement sounds remarkably similar to the sound of eggs cracking? The lovely marimekko case I have for this phone, which Husband got for me in response to the fit of nostalgia I had in the New York...
