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Posted onFebruary 24, 2024February 24, 2024Original post

A better ticket to ride

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Public transport is both essential and too hard to use, which makes it ripe for disruption!  Most of us are reluctant to use it when…

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Posted onJanuary 8, 2024January 8, 2024Innovation

Data-driven creativity eclipse

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Over the last two decades, the expanding use of data across society has profoundly transformed our world.  From the ads we see to the movies…

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Posted onDecember 16, 2023December 16, 2023AI

We are no closer to the singularity

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There is no doubt that 2023 has been the year that AI, through Generative AI, has truly captured public imagination.  As we wrap-up the year,…

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Posted onNovember 26, 2023November 26, 2023Productivity

Hanging up on the million-process company

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You enter a special type of hell when you are about to press “buy” and the website makes you register for an account, or when…

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Posted onOctober 28, 2023October 28, 2023AI

Who is copyright protecting?

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Readers of this blog who are under 30 may not even know what a cassette tape is!  But when they appeared in the 1970s, they…

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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, 2023March 23, 2024AI

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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