• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

The iPINIONS Journal

Welcome! This is an unapologetic, agenda-free zone. Just commentaries on current events that’ll move you to think, laugh, rage, and even cry.

© Copyright 2005-2026 (Images appear pursuant to 17 U.S.C. sec 107)
  • Home
  • About
    • Contact
You are here: Home / Archives for Technology

Technology

Doomscrolling End of Times

Saturday, November 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon of child doomscrolling about end times

iPINIONS imagined the apocalypse would be cinematic; not something we’d scroll through between coffee and deadlines. Eliot said it more poetically, but Huxley depicted our brave new world more accurately. Read my quip on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/doomscrolling-end-of-times Read more.

FacebookTweetEmail
Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Digital Culture, doomscrolling, dystopia, End Times, iPINIONS, modern life, social media, Technology

Job Interview in the Time of AI

Sunday, July 13, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon about interviewing for a job that a chatbot has already taken

You spend your life becoming qualified only to realize the interview is just data mining for the bot they already prefer. iPINIONS welcomes you to late-stage capitalism — where Adams’s Dilbert applies, Kafka’s Josef K. judges, and Camus’s Meursault thrives. Read more.

FacebookTweetEmail
Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: AI, Artificial Intelligence, automation, Camus, capitalism, cartoons, comics, Dilbert, iPINIONS, job interviews, jobs, Kafka, satire, Technology, workplace

Parental Authority Once Surrendered Is Never Regained

Saturday, June 28, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall
cartoon of parent negotiating with a child about binge-watching TV.

Except that iPINIONS thinks this parent must be playing some kind of reverse psychology on his kid. Because everyone knows it’s parents who binge-watch episodes, while kids are already itching to scroll their dumb phones before the end of the opening credits… Read more.

FacebookTweetEmail
Filed Under: Culture Tagged With: Digital Distraction, iPINIONS Humor, Parenting, Pop Culture, Screen Time, social media, Technology, TV Binge-Watching

Primary Sidebar

Anthony L. Hall headshot
Anthony L. Hall is the founding columnist of The iPINIONS Journal, where he’s published sharp, independent commentary on global affairs since 2005. Read more.

FOLLOW ME ON

Substack
Threads

MY BOOKS

All books available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers.

The iPINIONS Journal: 2020 in Real Time
Anthony Livingston Hall
Five Star Seal

Recent Articles

  • Nostalgia Is Having a Moment
  • Trump Is Making Juneteenth More Cause Than Commemoration
  • America Criminalized Online Gambling in the Caribbean. Now Trump Hosts It at the White House
  • The Shield of the Americas… Against Haiti
  • Host the World Cup Like This, America, and the World Will Boycott the LA Olympics
  • Trump Turns the Presidency Into a Ponzi Scheme
  • Why Is MAGA Warning Europe About the Immigration That Made America Great?
  • Trump Made the 2026 World Cup All About Him. So It’s a Mess.
  • Trump Should Make Elon Fund His Ballroom and Jan 6 Payoffs
  • Trump Is Preventing Iran from Developing Nukes Like He Forced North Korea to Denuclearize. God Help Us.

RSS Headlines

  • Supreme Court Restores Conviction in 1979 Murder of Etan Patz
  • Ten Years After Brexit, the Dismal Verdict Is In
  • ‘The View’ Asks Its Audience for Help in Battle With F.C.C.
  • Thousands Are Fleeing as Putin Bombs the Donbas Cities He Most Covets
  • Clive Davis, Music Industry Titan Who Signed Whitney Houston, Dies at 94
  • Congressional Democrats Warn Pulte Against Mass Firings
  • Ukraine Escalates Crimea Attacks, Creating a New Pressure Point for Russia
  • Is China Closing the A.I. Gap Faster Than Expected?
  • First Round of U.S.-Iran Talks Ends With High Hopes and Big Challenges
  • Alan Greenspan, Fed Chairman Through Prosperity and Crisis, Dies at 100

Archives

  • 2026: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun
  • 2025: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2024: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2023: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2022: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2021: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2020: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2019: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2018: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2017: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2016: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2015: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2014: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2013: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2012: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2011: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2010: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2009: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2008: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2007: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2006: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec
  • 2005: Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

Subscribe via Email


Powered by FeedBlitz

Copyright © 2026Secured by SiteCare