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The Funny Thing With Smart
When the thermometer was invented, nobody really understood what temperature was. The same is now true of intelligence; we can measure it, but remains a mystery.
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Mode Confusion and the Future of Robot Design : Lessons from Human Factors Engineering
Human factors engineering taught us to minimise the risk for mode confusion. That’s highly pertinent when designing interaction with social robots.
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Why We Keep Referencing The Past To Feel Good About the Future, or: A Brief History of Skeuomorphism
Why did the disciples of Bauhaus hate Parisian metro stations? And is VR really virtual?
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Something Big is About to Happen, and Apple Won’t Like It : the Digital Markets Act and the End of the Walled Garden Strategy
Apple’s renowned “user friendliness” comes at a price, or at least that’s what Apple likes us to believe.
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The Cost of Optimism : Philippe Squarzoni, Climate Change and the Total Perspective Vortex
I recently read two novels about gay men in the midst of the AIDS epidemic. Their reluctance to take the test reminds me of my own feelings with regards to global warming.
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Why I Won’t Use The Best Software, Even When It’s Free
Productivity is hard. The more you realise what the optimal setup would look like, the further you get from starting to implement it.
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The Automation Paradox : Losing Mastery in the Age of Machine Assistance
The shift from nitty gritty to ever more elevated levels of abstractions has been a trend in technology for so long, that it almost seems inevitable.
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The Sim-To-Real Gap
While watching babies and kittens learn by doing is cute, you don’t want a soon-to-be autonomous car cruising your neighborhood to pick up traffic rules.
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Disruption Disrupted : How Big Tech Keeps Innovative Startups at Bay
Everyone who read Clayton Christensen *knows* that startups will eat incumbents for breakfast. That’s why they call it disruption!
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The Better Deep Learning Gets, the More Vulnerable It Is to Adversarial Attacks
These are not your ordinary run of the mill cyber security threats. Adversarial attacks don’t rely on exploiting bugs.
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Now You See Me, Now You Don’t : Adversarial Patching Brings Serious Trust Issues to Machine Learning
A brief seven years after Gibson’s far fetched futurism, science fiction has become a reality. Does that mean we’re screwed?
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Know Your Sh*t : Why Real Knowledge Comes from Deep Immersion
I was once taught a powerful know-what-you’re-doing lesson.
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The Trend Towards Open Core : Evolving Strategies for Open Source Monetisation
2018 was the watershed year for the open core model, where you create value through hosted services and closed source add-ons.
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The Patron Driven Value Proposition : What Business Can Learn From Libraries
Great ideas are often met with fierce resistance and then suddenly become the new norm seemingly over-night.
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Preparing For the Next War : Carlota Perez on Why the Future Won’t Look Like the Past
Reading Carlota Perez feels like looking at one of those images doctors use to diagnose colour blindness; where before there was just a jumble of dots, patterns emerge.