Let me tell you something mildly preposterous: we’ve convinced ourselves that human communication problems can be solved by buying more communication tools.…
Read moreThe Great Tech Mirage Every generation believes it’s finally solved the information problem. First came filing cabinets, then databases, then the cloud,…
Read moreIn 1999, economist Hal Varian—now Google’s Chief Economist—co-authored Information Rules: A Strategic Guide to the Network Economy with Carl Shapiro.That book explained how information behaves…
Read moreWhy organizations confuse reassurance with progress in the age of information management Earlier this week, I sat in a meeting with my…
Read moreWe were told that more information would make us smarter.That more tools would make us faster.That data, connected and automated, would finally…
Read moreIn 1992, Neil Postman published Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology, describing a society where technology had become the lens through which…
Read moreIn the rapidly evolving landscape of technology, we’re witnessing a fundamental shift that challenges our traditional understanding of technology management. While artificial…
Read moreWhy Corporate AI Initiatives Are Experiencing Massive Decoherence In quantum mechanics, coherence occurs when wave functions oscillate in perfect synchronization, their phases…
Read moreWhy Information Abundance Is Making Us Worse at Actually Communicating We live in the most connected, information-rich era in human history. We…
Read moreWhy Artificial Intelligence Conflicts with Classical Information Systems For decades, our information systems have been built on classical assumptions: information is discrete,…
Read moreDeeper thinking on information, cognition & the systems we build around both.
