Technology

How can one know a machine is intelligent ? By using the Turing test, the ability of a machine to communicate human like. Have you noticed lately, the human like fluidity of AI powered customer service bots ? The Start – 50’s and 60’s The word Artificial intelligence was not coined until 1955 by John McCarthy who then […]

How can we discern and assign value to emerging technologies ? Can a framework guide us with confidence to place smarter bets on technologies, trends and businesses?  The PROBLEM Since earliest of times, we had faced the challenge of selecting a winner. In the modern age of accelerated innovation, it is virtually a random bet to

In 1950’s Harry Harlow at the University Wisconsin conducted a series of ground breaking experiments. The subjects were infant monkeys separated at birth from their mothers. Devoid of parenthood, put in a cage, the researchers watched as the infants were frightened by strange, loud sounds and objects. In the experiments, the two surrogate mothers were

(I am an Amazon employee, but the viewpoints expressed here are my personal opinion.) The inevitable happened, Hundreds of millions of users moved their data from local computers, mobile devices, and on-premise storage arrays to the cloud. This mass-scale movement has created a seminal moment in history with large distributed data lakes operating on the

Remember the glorious days from the late 90’s, when the founder would pitch the deck, and by the time they had walked out of the building, the venture partner would rush behind and give the investment terms? It did not matter then as of now, whether the founders can spell out key functions that should