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A collection of 68 issues
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
LNG Oversupply? With Tech’s Ascension, There’s No Such Thing as Enough Energy
A few years ago, if you flew across North America on a clear day, preferably in an aircraft, you would sometimes see natural gas flares burning below you at ground level. Natural gas often is found in proximity to oil, so while the oil was extracted and transported for processing
A Strange Brush with Tech-Industry Ageism
I have been strafed by a cold, or a flu, or by some other unwelcome invader. I suppose it’s the season for such maladies. On the bright side, I’d rather play host to the nasties now, if I’m going to have them at all, than during the
New Chapter or Epilogue? x86’s Latest Salvo
Robotaxis, Faux Robo PR, Robo Content Moderation, Kong’s New Valuation, Canadian Quantum, and Tech-Industry Lobbying
Taking in the Big Picture at OpenAI
It’s nearly impossible to keep up with all the announcements relating to genAI. Something new – funding, partnerships, releases of new or improved LLMs, executive hires, launches of strategic roadmaps – jumps to the front of the queue each day, to be brusquely displaced by something else, often later the same
Lessons in Chairing Panels
FT Edit published a commentary recently decrying the state of panels and roundtable discussions at conferences and trade shows. It’s a good piece, and I recommend that you read it if you have access to the article and if you have an abiding interest in what can go right
Why Intel’s Future is Unlikely to Include an Acquisition by Qualcomm
Large parts of the technology industry would like to think of themselves as apolitical. Many denizens of the technology world might have no use for politics, but politics, especially of the geopolitical variety, unquestionably has use for many of them.
As geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China intensify,
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