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TECH & INNOVATION: Why innovation needs continuity

People think innovation is about breaking things. It distinctly is not. Continuity is required to make anything stick long enough to be adopted.

TECH & INNOVATION: Business half-lives

Companies are not lasting nearly as long as they used to.

TECH & INNOVATION: AI and investor influence

Investors demand AI. CEOs and startup entrepreneurs cannot escape.

TECH & INNOVATION: Coevolutionary governance—part 2

Our current institutions, corporations, and governments have not kept pace with changes in the world. They attempt to operate on the old control paradigm instead of on one that ensures that everyone thrives.

TECH & INNOVATION: Coevolutionary governance

Coevolutionary governance means ensuring that as technology develops, society adapts to use it responsibly.

TECH & INNOVATION: Mastermind Groups

The group mind knows more than individual minds.

TECH AND INNOVATION: Augmented humanity

Can AI turn us all into polymaths, and is that what we want?

TECH & INNOVATION: Innovation as a force of convergence

Historically, innovation has been a force of convergence, bringing together people from different fields and nations. It is certainly true today.

TECH & INNOVATION: Improved customer service with AI

ChatGPT listens to what I am requesting, answers the questions, and even remembers the context within which I am asking them.

TECH & INNOVATION: The AI Winter

AI may seem not the new hot thing, but it actually took a long time to deliver enough value to become profitable.

TECH TALK: Quantum computing tech, Part 2

Complex and expensive, it will happen but not quite yet.

TECH TALK: Emergent and limitless quantum computing

Quantum computing is undoubtedly an emergent technology—one that is still evolving but holds the potential to change the world.

TECH TALK: Winter heating tech

Two very straightforward actions can make a huge difference in your comfort and your costs.

TECH TALK: Avoiding tech problems

Instead of problem solving, how about problem avoiding?

TECH TALK: 3D-Printing Tech

Print anything from jet engine parts to hobby plastic figurines.

TECH TALK: Ed Tech

These days a person has to try very hard to be ignorant.

TECH TALK: Prototype Tech

Making an experimental version of an idea is now much easier than ever before. The barrier to entry for everything new is low!