Nan Nelson – Envision Board Member
Consider the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A.I. tools like ChatGPT seem to think, speak, and create like humans. But what are they really doing? Leading experts explore what A.I. can – and can’t – do today, and what lies ahead: cancer cures and prediction, wildfire spotting, artificial limbs, and much more. Watch this 54-min. episode of PBS NOVA
Nanette Nelson, Board Member
Another Easter, another survey showing religion’s recent ebb: This one is from Gallup, confirming a deepening of the 21st-century decline in church attendance. But diminishment coexists with transformation… So let’s try to imagine how these trends might shape American religion a generation hence.
Judy Nagel, Upward Mobility Signals Team
Google has initiated a first-of-its-kind approach to powering its data centers –
geothermal energy! With the goal of accelerating a clean energy transition on a
planetary scale, Google has pioneered a horizontal drilling method. It uses new
techniques to harness the consistent heat from within the Earth’s crust and generate
electricity without burning fossil fuels or releasing carbon into the atmosphere. More on energy.