Monday, October 31, 2016

Early Indications October 2016: What's Ahead for Higher Education?

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First things first: my Robots book was published by MIT Press a couple weeks ago. I worked with a wonderful team there; among other th...
Sunday, October 02, 2016

Early Indications September 2016: Welcome to Dystopia?

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If you’re an author with a knack for conjuring up nightmare scenarios, these are in fact the best of times: George R. R. Martin (Game of T...
Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Early Indications August 2016: The Next Car

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About 125 years ago, when the internal combustion engine supplanted equine power for personal mobility, there was much talk regarding “hor...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Early Indications July 2016: The Beer Issue

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While a focus on beer in mid-summer is timely, the economics of the industry are fascinating rear-round (hopefully even to non-drinke...
Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Early Indications June 2016 What do we make of Artificial Intelligence?

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For context, an old joke: Q: What’s harder than solving the problem of artificial intelligence? A: Fixing real stupidity. In many current ...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Early Indications May 2016: Technology and inevitability

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Human nature drives us to look backwards and see a series of developments neatly explaining the current situation: we all exhibit hindsigh...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Early Indications April 2016: Tesla Thoughts

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In the absence of tech IPOs, must-have new apps, or killer demos, we are in a period of waiting: will Uber continue to scale, win its lega...
Thursday, March 31, 2016

Early Indications March 2016: Robotics Business Models

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For all the engineering successes of robots in the past few years, it’s unclear how the various sub-fields will make money. Past business m...
Monday, February 29, 2016

Early Indications February 2016: B2B e-Commerce update

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While there has been substantial attention paid to consumer e-commerce (Black Friday numbers, for example), the state of both practice and...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Early Indications January 2016: Shocks

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The past month has been marked by a series of extraordinary events that would have been completely unforeseen only a year ago, or even in ...