Technology lock-in... “We can do this because we have technology to manipulate matter right down to the molecular level. This is an extraordinary ability, think of it! And yet some of us here can accept transforming the entire physical reality of this planet, without doing a single thing to change ourselves, or the way we live. To be twenty-first-century scientists on Mars, … [Read more...] about Technology Lock-in: How 20th Century Technology Keeps Small and Medium Businesses from Joining the 21st Century
A Specification for My Liquid Newsroom
Updated February 25 2016, from a March 2011 post. I was asked recently by Steffen Konrath at News 3.0 via Twitter. What I are you looking for in a news consumer user experience? Here is my answer. Liquid Newsroom context I am an avid tearer and categorizer of paper-based media (true in 2011, but I have mostly migrated to digital content these days - 2016). … [Read more...] about A Specification for My Liquid Newsroom
Open Note to WEF: Reinvent Economy Don’t Be Threatened by AI
The gnashing of teeth and the fear-mongering about job displacement has started at the World Economic Forum. Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) are out to take many of the most prestigious job classes. See: Davos: Doctors and lawyers could be replaced by robots from the Telegraph. Why we shouldn't be threatened by AI I'm not worried. We Shouldn't Be … [Read more...] about Open Note to WEF: Reinvent Economy Don’t Be Threatened by AI
The Tens: Top Ten Things Job Hunters Should Do on Social Media
Top Ten Things Job Hunters Should Do on Social Media I just spent the last two weekends teaching Social Media for Job Hunters at Bellevue College. It is always a great learning experience for me, and I hope, a valuable experience for the students as well. Here are some of the major takeaways. Please feel free to add your thoughts or argue with mine in the comments … [Read more...] about The Tens: Top Ten Things Job Hunters Should Do on Social Media
What Leaders Can Learn from Playing Video Games: Why Excellence is a Mystery
Be it Angry Birds or Galaga, Fallout or Call of Duty, knowing what good likes like is pretty easy. You gain an achievement, rack up three stars or land on a leaderboard. In the pre-social gaming days, it was a local leaderboard, the one on the game you were playing at Shakey’s Pizza during lunch from your sys op job on a HP 3000. Today your achievements are splattered across … [Read more...] about What Leaders Can Learn from Playing Video Games: Why Excellence is a Mystery