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Newsletter 79 – Medium and the Message
“The medium is the message” – Marshall McLuhan Medium and the Message Medium.com rather than being the message offers a platform to a wildly broad picaresque deluge of messages in the form of blog...
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Newsletter 74 – Hardware is Hard
Hardware is Hard Hardware has always been a tough business to make a profit in but is arguably tougher than ever for gadget-makers in the current climate as Charles Arthur points out in this article...
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Newsletter 64 – AWS as a Service
AWS as a Service The widely reported technical glitches that affected Amazon’s Prime Day promotion were a reminder of how dependent much of Amazon’s infrastructure let alone the modern internet is on...
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Newsletter 49 – Facebook Troll
Facebook Troll Wired’s long form post on Facebook’s two years of hell makes for essential reading. It tells of how a seemingly small leak from the Trending Topics team in February 2016 lit the fuse on...
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Newsletter 48 – DIY AlphaGoZero
DIY AlphaGoZero The release of a open source version of the AlphaGoZero architecture on Github implemented in pure Python represents another landmark in the progress of arguably Deep Mind’s greatest...
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Newsletter 40 – Even better than the Real Thing
Even better than the real thing The story of a garden shed that became the top rated London restaurant on TripAdvisor is a cautionary tale of the limits of authority in latter day social media where...
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Newsletter 35 – Closer
Closer I can hear your cry out there And I can feel you close to me Reverberations from last week’s momentous AlphaGo Zero announcement are still fresh. It still feels like a major watershed in the...
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Newsletter 34 – The Future of Work
The Future of Work PwC claim that “only 5% of young workers in Britain are in jobs that are safe from robot replacement“. Those jobs that remain will become much more intellectually difficult as...
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Newsletter 33 – Mind Control
Mind Control In an important article in The Guardian, a number of alumni of Facebook and Google warn that society is increasingly heading down the wrong path to a dystopian future off the back of...
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Newsletter 32 – Winter Is Coming
Winter Is Coming As highlighted last time around, for the Silicon Valley tech giants after many years of basking in adulation, Winter is now here in the form of greater public suspicion and legislative...
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Newsletter 31 – Blood In The Water
Blood In The Water The sacred status of Freedom of Speech in the US is enshrined in the constitution under the First Amendment and is traditionally held up as the key foundation block of the nation....
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Newsletter 29 – The Chinese Way
The Chinese Way Macro Polo surveys the deep roots and long branches of Chinese techno-nationalism. There are three components to this worldview: technology as a source of national power, competition...
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Newsletter 26 – The Inner Limits
The Inner Limits Francois Chollet, the creator of Keras, outlines in this thoughtful post some of the limitations of deep learning as a precursor to a post linked to recently in this blog in which he...
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Newsletter 21 – Hyperobjects in the Anthropocene
Hyperobjects in the Anthropocene The Guardian profiled philosopher Tim Morton who has an interesting take on the situation 21st Century humanity finds itself in. For Morton our awareness of natural...
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Newsletter 20 – Something Rotten
Something Rotten Sam Kriss published a blistering take on what he learned about the state of tech after attending the Collision tech expo in New Orleans. He started by reminding us of that well-worn...
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Newsletter 6 – American Unicorn
American Unicorn Sam Lessin in The Information suggests that Donald Trump is the political equivalent of a Silicon Valley unicorn and there is a strange symmetry between his travails and that of a...
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Newsletter 1 – The Future and Its Enemies
The Future and Its Enemies “Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of Warre, where every man is Enemy to every man; the same is consequent to the time, wherein men live without other security,...
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Week 44
Living on the Edge Edge computing, a paradigm in which embedded intelligence moves to the leaf nodes of the internet, represents the “next big thing in tech” and will supercede cloud according to top...
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Week 40
American History X At once as far as angel’s ken he views The dismal situation waste and wild, A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but...
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Week 38
Artificial Intelligence Skepticism Two US government reports out this week helped raise the ante even further on the future application of Artificial Intelligence technology developments and underscore...
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