On August 31, 1993, noted science fiction author William Ford Gibson stated in an NPR interview “The future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed.” In 2017, the cloud, machine learning, Big Data, and scalable distributed computing shou...
In Part One of this blog, I examined the inherent flaws in human cognitive machinery that lead to poor information processing and a flawed approach to knowledge discovery that make us all “naturally stupid”. In Part Two, I'll explore how we will ove...
In a 1970 Life Magazine article, Marvin Minsky, cofounder of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab predicted, “In three to eight years we will have a machine with the general intelligence of an average human being.” Forty-seven years later and I can’...
As we bid adieu to 2016, it is clearer than ever that the “Templosion”[1] caused by the rapid changes in information technology have exceeded our capacity to comprehend the impending disruption. Disruption is in fact the new normal, and as a society,...
In 2011, in an article in the Wall Street Journal, Marc Andreessen proclaimed that software is eating the world. He argued that a slew of technological innovations including advanced microprocessors and high-speed connectivity will revolutionize trad...
