Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Blogging
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“Will AI create a generation of non-thinkers?,” asked Bharat Chandar, — a postdoctoral researcher at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, — in an essay published earlier this year in his Substack platform. In the essay, Chandar wrote about his concerns that a generation of students may not be able to develop the critical skills necessary…
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The January 21 issue of the NY Times Magazine included a very good article, Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble, by science writer Steven Johnson. His article aims to explain what blockchain, cryptocurrencies and related technologies are all about as well as their potential impact on the economy and society. These are not only complex but esoteric…
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Communications have played a major role in my work over the past few decades. During this period, I was involved in organizing emerging business opportunities at IBM, including the Internet and Linux. Since retiring from IBM in 2007, I’ve continued my involvement with technology-based initiatives, – AI and blockchain most recently, – through my consulting…
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Last month, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences launched a three year initiative to address the complex relationship between scientists and the public. The Public Face of Science project will explore the interactions of the general public with science, technology, medicine and related areas. Throughout the 20th century, polls have consistently indicated strong public support…
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“Empire of the geeks… and what could wreck it” was the featured cover story of The Economist’s July 25 issue. “Silicon Valley should be celebrated. But its insularity risks a backlash,” reads the tag line of its leader article. Last year’s anger at the private buses that take employees who live in San Francisco to their…
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The Internet era was born around 20 years ago, when Netscape went public in August of 1995 and caught the world by storm with its highly successful IPO. For many people, myself included, the Netscape IPO marked the passage of the Internet from a network primarily used by universities, research labs and the technical community…
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Where will good jobs come from in our emerging digital economy? This is a really important question given the dramatic changes taking place in the economy, mostly driven by the continuing advances in technology and the forces of globalization. Unfortunately, we don’t have very good answers. But, just about every study on the subject points to…
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Big Data is one of the hottest topics out there. Big data is a foundational element in IT’s quartet of Next Big Things: Social, Mobile, Analytics and Cloud. But, as the real world keeps reminding us, it is possible to make bad predictions and decisions even if you use tons of big data to make…
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On June 1 and 2 I was in Chicago to participate in the 50th high school reunion of the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools Class of 1962. I have not attended previous class reunions, and was not sure I would attend the 50th reunion either when I first heard that it was being planned. But,…
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In November of 2008, Andrew Sullivan published an excellent article in The Atlantic, – Why I Blog, – in which he discussed the unique characteristics of a blog by reminding us what a web log shares in common with its namesake, the ship log. “In journeys at sea that took place before radio or radar…