Tag: Technology
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The Question Nobody Funds
“Should we?” — two words, and the most expensive question in technology, because almost nobody is paid to ask it. The final essay in The Cost of Better on the question we quietly retired.
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There Is No Cloud
The cloud sounds like weather and runs like a foundry. The hidden environmental cost of AI data centres — in power, water, and the towns that pay the bill.
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The Graveyard of Sure Things
I have spent forty years watching technologies arrive announced as the destination — the place the whole industry was finally heading — and then, one by one, be revealed as detours. PowerBuilder. Sybase. Ruby on Rails. NoSQL. Blockchain. None of them failed, exactly. They were simply mistaken for the end of the road. A field…
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From Punch Cards to Claude Code
In 1978, I learned to code by hand-feeding punch cards into a machine. Today I describe my work in plain English and watch software write itself. Across that arc, an industry convinced itself the bill for progress had disappeared. It hadn’t — it never does. It only moves. The first essay in a series on…
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System Overload – How to Optimize Your Brain’s Operating System for Clear Thinking
In a world overwhelmed by information, noise, and nonstop stimulation, clarity of thought is becoming a rare and undervalued asset. This article explores why so many people struggle to think clearly—delving into the psychological, emotional, and cognitive reasons behind mental fog—and how we can fix it. Drawing inspiration from how operating systems like Windows and…
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AI & the Workforce – The Illusion of Reskilling & The Coming Crisis
We stand at a crossroads in human history, one where artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from being a distant technological marvel to an omnipresent and omnipotent force reshaping the economic landscape, industries, the social and political landscape. The dawn of the AI era is a seismic shift and not merely a technological revolution.
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The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids
“The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids” https://medium.com/s/story/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on-kids-c452870464ce
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How Not to Look at Your Smartphone
“How Not to Look at Your Smartphone” @ritikabajaj24 https://hackernoon.com/how-not-to-look-at-your-smartphone-4b80c5b539
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Technological Revolution – No Internet aka The Dark Ages
For the generation that has seen technology in the palm of your hand almost from birth, boys and girls I would like to say that, there was a time when there was no internet, and even worse, no cellular phones, only landlines to contend with, not to speak of the challenges of actually getting a…
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