Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Category: Media and Communications
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The high degree of uncertainty surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic is one of its most frustrating qualities. How long will the pandemic last? When will normal life return? When will a vaccine be available? Not only don’t we have definitive answers, we don’t even know how to best frame these critical questions. The answers we get…
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I recently heard a very interesting presentation at the 2019 MIT CIO Symposium, – Why Companies Need an Augmented Reality Strategy, – by Harvard professor Michael Porter and James Heppelmann, CEO of PTC, an industrial software company. The talk was based on their HBR article A Manager’s Guide to Augmented Reality. We generally think of…
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PwC recently released a report on the potential economic value of AI to different regions and industry sectors around the world. The report defined AI, “as a collective term for computer systems that can sense their environment, think, learn, and take action in response to what they’re sensing and their objectives.” By this broad definition,…
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More than ever, scientific and technological innovations touch every aspect of our lives and influence the choices we make in a wide variety of areas. A 2015 study by the Pew Research Center revealed that most Americans have a positive view of science and of the accomplishments of scientists. But, despite broadly similar views about…
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It wasn’t that long ago that we didn’t have much use for probabilities in our daily life, – outside of weather reports, election predictions, baseball and financial markets. But that’s all changed with the growing datafication of the economy and society. Probabilities have been playing an increasing role in our work and personal life given…
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Just about every industry has been significantly transformed in the past few decades. But few have been as disrupted as the music industry. Everything seems to be changing at once, from the way content is produced and delivered, to the sources of revenue and profits. Digital technologies, – the Internet, smartphones, cloud computing, … –…
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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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I just read Tripping Down a Virtual Reality Rabbit Hole,- a very interesting NY Times column by technology journalist Farhad Manjoo. Manjoo recently spent a few weeks testing the Occulus Rift and the HTC Vive, two of the most powerful VR devices on the market. “The whole point of virtual reality is to create a fantasy…
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I recently read a very interesting paper, The Growing Importance of Social Skills in the Labor Market, by Harvard professor David Deming. Deming’s paper shows that over the past several decades, labor markets have been increasingly rewarding social skills, that is, interpersonal skills that facilitate interactions and communications with others. He presents evidence that since…
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A few months ago I attended the 12th annual Brookings Blum Roundtable on Global Poverty, a meeting that brought together around 50-60 policy and technical experts from government, academia, business, investors and NGOs. This year’s event was focused on the impact of digital technologies on economic development in emerging and developing countries. It was organized around…