Topic
Microsoft
A collection of 29 issues
Taking Stock in Strange Times
I’m back. Perhaps you hadn’t noticed that I’d gone. Well, too late, because I’m back.
For a few days last week, I suffered an abundance of thoughts, though few of them – none, actually – merited sharing with an audience. There are times when it’s advisable to
AI Infrastructure Spending Gives Tech Investors a Halloween Fright
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
How Information Technology Turbocharged Globalization, and Why It's Being Asked to Retreat
Technology, particularly information technology, played an integral role in facilitating the rise of globalization during the last part of the 20th century and the first decade or so of this century. Globalization, of course, existed before the rise of modern information technology, but there's no question that IT