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Is AI the Capstone of Tech Feudalism?
Amid the Media Deluge: Revisiting AI’s Big Questions
News articles, feature stories, and opinion pieces about artificial intelligence are proliferating wildly. If the technological advance of AI is outpacing its media coverage, then all the optimistic and pessimistic AI scenarios that philosophers, pundits, and scientists have propounded might materialize sooner than expected. Unfortunately, the worst of the pessimistic
Imagining Sports Fans As Technology Employees
Seasoned Observations on the Marketing of IT Infrastructure
Past is Prologue, and Forewarned is Forearmed
I remember clearly when I first experienced the World Wide Web (WWW). I was visiting the Toronto office of the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO) during the spring of 1991, and a group of developers asked whether I’d be interested in taking a trip through cyberspace. At first, I thought
Behind Modi’s Warning of Rare Earths “New Colonialism”
Speaking last weekend at a business summit in New Delhi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi cited the threat of a "new model of colonialism.” According to a Reuters report, Modi said the risk was represented by nations that do not regard their custodianship of critical minerals as a "
You Value Your Excitement More than Anybody Else Does
Almost every technology blog post or press release now features a statement by a company CEO or other senior executive that expresses how excited the person is about the product or partnership being announced.
Tough Questions About Tech’s Shadow Rule
Earlier this week, The New Yorker published a lengthy feature article by Ronan Farrow titled “Elon Musk’s Shadow Rule.” Ronan Farrow, as you might recall, was the author of an earlier article in The New Yorker, and a subsequent book, that investigated allegations of sexual abuse against Hollywood producer
No Easy Path to Effective AI Regulations
In his blog post, “Why AI Will Save the World,” Mark Andreessen flayed critics of AI development as Luddite simpletons and quaking “doomers,” naive victims of cunning schemes by industry giants pursuing “regulatory capture” and hammerlock domination of lucrative new markets.
But is that perspective accurate and justified? Are there