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February 7, 2017 •
Business Models, News •
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You probably heard last May about the owner of a self-driving car who was killed because he failed to keep his own eyes on the road. More amusingly, you may have read recently about the six-year-old girl who innocently asked Alexa to deliver a dollhouse,...
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February 1, 2017 •
Features •
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If anyone can be replaced by a computer (as I implied in part 1), shouldn’t I be worried that I could lose my job to one of Asimov’s heirs? After all, project management is just a bunch of data gathering, rules, processes and reporting. I am...
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January 25, 2017 •
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When I was a communications engineer in the Canadian air force, I occasionally amused myself by telling senior pilots that I felt their jobs could be replaced by a computer. “Ho, ho, ho, young captain, it’s really not that simple” was...
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October 23, 2015 •
Innovation, News •
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“Disruptive” has entered every technologist’s vocabulary and, as invariably happens with a popular buzzword, the term is now as overused as the “f” word in a Tarantino drama. To be disruptive, a technology needs to upset a business model, not a...
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February 5, 2014 •
Innovation, News •
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Joaquin Phoenix’s girlfriend in “Her” wouldn’t have been a program worth a fig if she didn’t have some ability to gauge her user’s emotions – so why does does it seem so alarming when Apple seeks to patent a system...
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October 27, 2013 •
Innovation, News •
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Ah, my old nemesis! Nick Carr, the same one who caused a furor by insisting that “IT Doesn’t Matter”, meaning IT is a commodity and of no strategic value to a business, now believes that IT is taking over so much of what we do that...