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“Technical standards define guidelines and specifications across products, services, or systems to ensure consistency, compatibility, and quality,” said “The State of Open Standards,” a recent report by “Linux Foundation Research” in its Introduction. “They are fundamental in facilitating trade, ensuring product safety, and enabling interoperability between different technologies and systems. With such an interconnection of…
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Wikipedia defines Agentic AI as “a class of artificial intelligence that focuses on autonomous systems that can make decisions and perform tasks without human intervention.” A recent IBM website, “What is Agentic AI,” adds that: “Agentic systems provide the flexibility of LLMs, which can generate responses or actions based on nuanced, context-dependent understanding, with the…
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Hard Fork is a weekly podcast from the NY Times that examines the impact of the latest developments in technology on the economy and society. The podcast is hosted by Kevin Roose, NY Times technology journalist, and Casey Newton, founder of the Platformer newsletter. A few weeks ago the podcast discussed Is AI a ‘Normal'…
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“Our data is everywhere and powering everything,” noted “Pathways to Open Data,” a report by Linux Foundation Research published in March of 2025. “From marketing, to healthcare, to government services, to the emerging phenomenon of programming AI agents, organizations leverage data to be as efficient and effective as possible. However, data is often siloed within…
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Work from home (WFH) has been around for decades. The share of people working from home three or more days per week was under 1% in 1980, growing modestly with the rise of the Internet to around 2.4% in 2010 and 4% in 2018. Then came Covid-19, forcing tens of millions around the world to…
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“The central purpose of supply chains is to fulfill the needs and wants of humanity — delivering all the food, medicine, energy, apparel, and other worldly goods needed by the eight billion people in the planet,” wrote MIT professor Yossi Sheffi in the preface of his 2023 book, The Magic Conveyor Belt: Supply Chains, A.I.…
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“AI is changing the cost and availability of expertise, and that will fundamentally alter how businesses organize and compete,” said “Strategy in an Era of Abundant Expertise,” a Harvard Business Rreview (HBR) article by Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani and Microsoft corporate strategists Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, John Corwin, and Yang Li. At its most…
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“Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has the potential to drive significant improvements in workforce productivity at the level of tasks, organizations and economies,” said a recent report “Leveraging Generative AI for Job Augmentation and Workforce Productivity: Scenarios, Case Studies and a Framework for Action,” by the World Economic Forum in collaboration with PwC. “Delivering those gains…
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General purpose technologies (GPTs) are the defining technologies of their times. They are engines for growth that can radically transform the economic environment. “Early versions of GPTs often look very different from their mature forms,” wrote MIT’s Isabella Loaiza and Roberto Rigobon in “The EPOCH of AI: Human-Machine Complementarities at Work.” “Only after waves of…
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MIT professor emeritus Rodney Brooks has been posting an annual Predictions Scorecard in rodneybrooks.com since January 1, 2018, where he predicts future milestones in three technology areas: AI and robotics, self driving cars, and human space travel. He also reviews the actual progress in each of these areas to see how his past predictions have…