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Posted onSeptember 18, 2023September 18, 2023Innovation

Open source IP can level the playing field

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In 2006 I was proud to be appointed to my first global role leading an Information Management team to market.  The trouble was that in…

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Posted onAugust 26, 2023AI

AI’s information limits

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Last month I talked about what artificial intelligence needed to be useful.  I also talked about AI being smart, but I should also have qualified…

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Posted onJuly 27, 2023July 27, 2023AI

AI’s opposable thumbs

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Dolphins and whales are smart, maybe even smarter than us.  But without opposable thumbs, they can’t express their intelligence in technology or in ways that…

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Posted onJune 25, 2023August 19, 2023AI

Exponential priorities

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The great attraction of fossil fuels is their huge energy density.  Burning a kilogram of oil can produce 40 to 50 megajoules of energy to propel…

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Posted onMay 28, 2023May 28, 2023Original post

What comes after Starlink?

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Walking through an airport recently I couldn’t help noticing that Starlink is starting to ramp-up its consumer advertising.  I hear different views on whether low-Earth orbit…

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Posted onApril 29, 2023April 29, 2023Cloud

New cyber rules may change the face of business

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The US has announced moves to make the tech sector, particularly SaaS (Software as a Service) providers, accountable for cyber issues.  A number of countries, including…

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Posted onMarch 28, 2023March 28, 2023Original post

Embracing the role of luck

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We like to think we are in control of our destiny.  However, decades of research into chaos theory and behavioural economics should have taught us otherwise.  There…

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Posted onFebruary 25, 2023February 25, 2023Innovation

The transition from digital to deep tech

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In November 1998 Pets.com was launched and by early 2000 they could claim investors like Amazon, they had raised nearly $100M on the NASDAQ and…

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Posted onJanuary 28, 2023Cloud

I was right about blockchain

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Blockchain was a bubble that brought together the worst of human nature: opportunists seeking to get rich quick and leaders looking for simplistic answers to…

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