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Just an announcement that the video of the ‘fundamentals’ part of my recent talks on essential insights on technology and psychology in relation to the digital revolution is now online on my YouTube channel.
Fundamental properties of digital IT have set ons on a road not to a Singularity Point, but towards Complexity Crunch. That has consequences for our strategic (IT) choices and landscapes.
A ‘long read’ (sorry) about lessons we can learn by now after h…
The early machines at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution produced ‘cheap’ (in both meanings) products and it was the introduction of that ‘cheap’ category that was actually disruptive. In the same way, where ‘cheap’ is acceptable (and no: that …
The world is waking up to the systemic vulnerabilities of our massive dependence on interdependent large logical (IT) landscapes. These not only lead to inertia — change becomes harder and harder —, but also to a brittleness of our organisations — and …
The third ‘fragmentation wave’ of the IT-revolution is upon us, it seems. Fragmentation is a repeated pattern in the IT-revolution, that has given us object oriented programming and agile/DevOps as solutions to managing complexity. Now, it is the organ…
Cicero, a model by facebook Meta, was able to win from humans in one of the best board games in the world: Diplomacy, a very impressive feat. More on that below. Let’s move to chatGPT first, the language model that… Read More Cicero and ch…
Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, has claimed the LaMDA language neural net chatbot is sentient, is alive. Nonsense on stilts, according to one critic.
A musing about the meaning of ‘life’. And abortion. And doubt. And the point Lemoine has but doesn…
Most IT exists to support other IT, not your business directly. A part of this is that stack/web of platforms on which your applications depend. How does that for instance affect #informationsecurity in your designs?
What is the information revolution doing to us humans? A very condensed journey from essences of digital technology and human intelligence to the role of talk, trust and the impact of IT on society.
It is generally accepted that IT Strategy must follow Business Strategy. It seems a no-brainer. But is it? There are reasons to look at it differently, reasons that become more pressing as organisations become more digital.
What is the information revolution doing to us humans? A very condensed journey from essences of digital technology and human intelligence to the role of talk, trust and the impact of IT on society.
I’m speaking at the free online BILT conference on Nov 19 21:00 CET. Title: Master or Servant? Are We Humans Still ‘Top Dog’ in This Brave New World of Massive IT?