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Ethics and Technology: From Neutral Infrastructure to the Age of AI
From its inception, going back to the postwar (World War II) period, the technology industry was heavily involved in the design, development, manufacture, and sale of infrastructure. Initially, the infrastructure was vertically integrated hardware and software. More recently, software has come to predominate, with the rise of disaggregation, where hardware
Biographers of “Great Men” Do Us No Favors
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.