The Widening Technocratic Divide is Making Politics Worse
Life complexifies. Perhaps it is a fundamental law of information that the complexity of information increases. In the world of biology, over time organisms become more complex, with new genetic...
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The IaaS Battleground
The uncertain future of cloud computing and the plethora of frowny CIO faces of a couple years ago are rapidly giving way to the acceptance — if not embracing — of infrastructure as a service (IaaS),...
View ArticleCalling All Renaissance Kids
In research and in economic innovation, great insight and great value are frequently created by individuals with stocks of knowledge in two or more domains and by teams of people where the individuals...
View ArticleChoking on “One Throat to Choke”
Beat ’em up. Knock ’em down. Slap ’em around. Keep them on a short leash. Teach them a lesson. Make ’em behave. Vendors, that is. This phrase has recently seeped into common IT parlance. I’ve even...
View ArticleHypothesis 1: Expert Teams = Agile Teams
The following is from a chapter in the book The Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance, which I have read and highly recommend. Meant for those with an academic research bent, the book...
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Looming Threats in Cloud Computing
A lot has changed in a few years. When I talked about cloud three years back, I got frownie-faces from my peers. Skeptical looks that belied a deeper-seated fear or trepidation, probably having more...
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Brain Design-Inspired Computing Is Here
Computing inspired by the design of brains is rapidly progressing. Very rapidly. Companies like IBM and Qualcomm are financing neurochip projects, and in the case of IBM’s Cognitive Computing push, it...
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Big Data and the Mirror of Erised
“This mirror will give us neither knowledge or truth.” So says Dumbledore in J.K. Rowling’s book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, commenting on a mirror that shows us what our most desperate...
View ArticleThe IaaS Battleground
The uncertain future of cloud computing and the plethora of frowny CIO faces of a couple years ago are rapidly giving way to the acceptance — if not embracing — of infrastructure as a service (IaaS),...
View ArticleCalling All Renaissance Kids
In research and in economic innovation, great insight and great value are frequently created by individuals with stocks of knowledge in two or more domains and by teams of people where the individuals...
View ArticleTaming Big Data Denial
In a mutual boot-strapping beginning with the dawn of Homo sapiens, mankind and information have both exploded in variety, velocity, and volume. Our fates have been intertwined. We advance by...
View ArticleEducating Abraham Lincoln
As we all know, Abraham Lincoln was largely self-taught in the midst of meager means and living on the frontier in Kentucky, Indiana and Illinois, far from centers of learning and culture east of the...
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A Whole Lot of Heart: Properly Aligned Employees and Teams
For several years now, so many pundits, experts, and concerned citizens of the IT world have prattled on about IT alignment with the business. So much so that whenever you hear any phrase that starts...
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Steve Jobs: Greater than Scipio Africanus?
As expected and sudden was the inevitable and tragic end to Steve Jobs’s life, so too is it surprising yet necessary that an outpouring of praise and emotion would follow. We all loved his inventions....
View ArticleGimme fast data, not big data
All the focus on big data is missing the point. Yes, high performance computing architectures let us analyze very large data sets. And yes, that is interesting and helpful. But let’s go with a thought...
View Article12 Steps Toward Confident Excellence
Excellence is an old topic, more honored in a book than observed in the workplace. Nonetheless, it is an important topic because of some almost unbearable forces that are shearing the workplace. IT may...
View ArticleThe New Pork Belly: Buying, Selling Commodity Computing Units
Imagine, if you will, that all owners of data centers and agents representing buyers of computing cycles get together daily and buy and sell commodity computing units (we’ll call them containers) in an...
View ArticleWikileaks to Strongly Impact Global Diplomacy
Wikileaks has done more than anything else could have to make a strong emotional impact on world leaders across the globe. Wikileaks is the 9/11 of global diplomacy. The Internet is no longer benign....
View ArticleAccidents and Incidents on the Road to the Cloud?
Apple continues to make waves with the iPad and the iPhone. The iPad is probably already a US $2 billion line of business in a scant 80 days. Name another product that generated so much revenue so...
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