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Richard Veryard Behaviours developed in a state of scarcity may cease to be appropriate in a state of abundance. Our stone age ancestors struggled to get enough energy-rich food, so they acquired a taste for food with a strong energy hit. We inherited a greed for swee…
Anyone fancy a job as Head of Infrastructure? Here is the job description, posted to Linked-In earlier this week.We’re responsible for “IT Change”, including the end to end architecture, deployment and maintenance of IT infrastructure technologies acro…
In the real world, ethics is rarely if ever the primary focus. People engaging with practical issues may need guidance or prompts to engage with ethical questions, as well as appropriate levels of governance.@JPSlosar calls for”a set of easily recogni…
@riptari (Natasha Lomas) has a few questions for DeepMind’s AI ethics research unit. She suggests that”it really shouldn’t need a roster of learned academics and institutions to point out the gigantic conflict of interest in a commercial AI giant resea…
Last year, Facebook changed its mission statement, from “Making The World More Open And Connected” to “Bringing The World Closer Together”.As I said in September 2005, interoperability is not just a technical question but a sociotechnical question (inv…
Following @carolecadwalla’s latest revelations about the misuse of personal data involving Facebook, she gets a response from Alex Stamos, Facebook’s Chief Security Officer.Hi, Carole. First off, I work on security, not strategy, and I agree that this …
A commonly accepted principle of architecture and engineering is to avoid a single point of failure (SPOF). A single depot for a chain of over 850 fast food restaurants could be risky, as KFC was warned when it announced that it was switching its logis…
As @jjvincent observes, integrating robots into human jobs is tougher than it looks. Four days after it was installed in a Pasadena CA burger joint, Flippy the robot has been taken out of service for an upgrade. Turns out it wasn’t fast enough to handl…
My thin clean-shaven friend @futureidentity is reassured by messages that appear to be misdirected.Have we reached peak hipster? I’ve just been sent an advertisement for a beard brush – right-handed model.— Robin Wilton (@futureidentity) April 1, 2016 …
This week, three American companies announced a joint venture to sort out healthcare for their own employees. Ambitious, huh?This is not the first time large American companies have tried to challenge tho market power of healthcare providers. According…
Just over a year ago, Microsoft launched some software that would guess how old you were. Millions of people were persuaded to donate a selfie to Microsoft in return for playing this game. See my post 85 Million Faces (October 2016).Google’s latest fac…
@NilsPratley blames delusion in the boardroom (on a grand scale, he says) for Carillion’s collapse. “In the end, it comes down to judgments made in the boardroom.”A letter to the editor of the Financial Times agrees.”This situation has been caused, in …