Topic
Algorithms
A collection of 14 issues
Quantum Mania: Amid the Present Puffery, A Seemingly Bright Future
You could say that it’s the best of times, the worst of times, and practically the non-existent times for quantum computing. The sentence I’ve just typed is paradoxical, but that doesn’t mean it’s wrong.
The information-technology industry seems to be forming a consensus that quantum computing
The Danger Zone: When Societies Struggle to Adapt to Technological Change
I’ve thought a lot lately about how previous generations, during prior periods of major technological change, dealt with being caught between the tectonic plates of past, present, and future.
Most of us assume, I believe, that tomorrow will be much like today. For the most part, that’s true.
In Praise of Uncertainty: A Resolution for the Year Ahead
We learn, if we’re fortunate and observant, from the past, even though we can never know precisely what happened in the past. We live, of necessity, in the present. We look forward to the future, often in hope more than fear. We can’t know the future, though. We
Musk’s Empire: Why Tesla Might Suffer from Rise of SpaceX
Dell Warns that AI Ascent Will Not Be Linear
Tech Reaches the Geopolitical Summit: The Rise of Datacenter Diplomacy
There’s an article in – of all places – Foreign Policy that I recommend you read.
I recommend that you read the article not because I wholeheartedly agree completely with everything it says – the piece raises perhaps as many questions as it answers – but because I think it provides valuable insight
Why Tech Employment is Not What It Used to Be
When major new technologies arise, the expectation is that prosperity will follow. What’s more, most observers reasonably assume that the wealth will be shared, not evenly – because that never happens – but at least broadly.
For the most part, these expectations and assumption were realized in past information-technology booms, including
Next Week’s Earnings Face Elevated Scrutiny After Tech-Stock Wobble
Reports from the market’s coalface suggest investors might be slowly rediscovering the benefits of diversification. They are learning the hard way a lesson that experience had taught their forebears: If you put too much of your investment capital in one place, whether a single stock or a market sector,
Goldman Sachs' Intriguingly Ambiguous Assessment of the GenAI Market
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book— what everyone else does not say in a book.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Nietzsche said some batshit-crazy stuff, particularly after he was stricken by syphilis – or was it brain cancer? Regardless of what afflicted Nietzsche, the