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April 13, 2017 •
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Insurance underwriters like to think they’re hard-headed and precise number crunchers, when in fact the aspects of their profession they seem most fond of are those where they get to practice voodoo, poking through the entrails, reading the tea leaves...
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February 22, 2017 •
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I know of two global positioning systems. One is the GPS your phone uses, but the newer idea is a global.positioning.system. There are other differences. One is circling the globe and the other is in the middle of Utah. The first one is technology...
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February 7, 2017 •
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You probably heard last May about the owner of a self-driving car who was killed because he failed to keep his own eyes on the road. More amusingly, you may have read recently about the six-year-old girl who innocently asked Alexa to deliver a dollhouse,...
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February 1, 2017 •
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If anyone can be replaced by a computer (as I implied in part 1), shouldn’t I be worried that I could lose my job to one of Asimov’s heirs? After all, project management is just a bunch of data gathering, rules, processes and reporting. I am...
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January 25, 2017 •
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When I was a communications engineer in the Canadian air force, I occasionally amused myself by telling senior pilots that I felt their jobs could be replaced by a computer. “Ho, ho, ho, young captain, it’s really not that simple” was...
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October 23, 2015 •
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“Disruptive” has entered every technologist’s vocabulary and, as invariably happens with a popular buzzword, the term is now as overused as the “f” word in a Tarantino drama. To be disruptive, a technology needs to upset a business model, not a...
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June 2, 2015 •
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Being an IT professional in the insurance industry is a bit like being an engineer on an air base: in the air force, nobody listens to you unless you’re a pilot or a navigator. In an insurance company, the actuaries and underwriters get the...
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May 17, 2014 •
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Entrepreneurs take note: the FAA is taking a business-friendly tack on the rules it applies to commercial drone use. This includes plans to accelerate the permit approval process. Granted, it will be about a year before the rules have effect, but...
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March 27, 2014 •
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A recent article in The Economist explained why skepticism about the utility of quantum computing is justified, one of many wait-and-see voices about this exotic and arcane technology. There are certain classes of tasks that may be performed much more...
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February 25, 2014 •
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It’s not hard to see the promise of 3D printers in a general way, but I don’t think I ever really grasped the full range and potential of this new technology until now. If you’re in manufacturing, you probably seized upon it right away for design and...
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February 5, 2014 •
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Joaquin Phoenix’s girlfriend in “Her” wouldn’t have been a program worth a fig if she didn’t have some ability to gauge her user’s emotions – so why does does it seem so alarming when Apple seeks to patent a system...
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January 24, 2014 •
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TechCrunch sounds a little surprised to discover that tablets are taking over the world. Funny, because we’ve all heard the growth projections: Gartner, as an example, says that sales of all devices are going to grow by 7.6% this year – and...
