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Notes toward a book on AI governance · 2018–19
- The Information AgeIf the telephone was the first globally impactful invention, the personal computer was the second. Developments in mainframe and midrange computers…
- The Digital BridgeWidespread personal and commercial use of the Cloud is now commonly being referred to as a Digital Experience . This term has a variety of…
- The Fairy God ModelHappiness. It’s a word used liberally to describe our emotional perspective on nearly everything in our lives. Are you happy with your job? Are you…
- Smart versus IntelligentMost of what we know about AI comes from two sources: the brainiacs inventing the technologies that will use AI in the future. No, not all of them…
- The Bait and SwitchThis book may not be what you thought it would be. There are plenty of publications that address AI from a development angle, a commercial angle and…
- How we got hereWithout a doubt, the two most important inventions in modern time are the telephone and the personal computer. Each tool helped usher in a new age of…
- The Industrial AgeThe evolution of commercial and consumer technology has been on an accelerated trajectory. From the 1860’s to the 1960’s, a mere century in the span…
- Now…The Intelligence AgeWhile the Information Age matured over the past three decades, futurists, scientists and engineers have envisioned a time where computing technology…
- The World Wide Web, The Internet and The CloudIn 1983 ARPANET adopted the TCP/IP protocol for what was then called the ‘network of networks.’ Seven years later, computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee…