Conquering the most important problems faced by complex organizations often requires great models, not “big data”: in many situations, better decisions can be made with imperfect or incomplete data. As storage and processing costs...
Gandhi predicted that both capitalism and communism would eventually fail.[1] He proposed a third system, called trusteeship,[2] which held tremendous promise. Yet today’s world is much more complex than the one that Gandhi inhabited, and so we...
A landmark paper appeared last December in the National Science Review (summary). It describes the complex interdependencies between climate, consumption, population, demographics, inequality, economic growth, migration, and more. Written by an interdisciplinary team of...
In the swirl of events, I’m often left wondering if there’s something deeper going on. Our leaders seem to be increasingly missing the bigger picture. A glimpse, here and there, into the underlying cause...
Please enjoy this interview broadcast today with me and Daniel G. Faggella of TechEmergence. I touch on intelligence augmentation (IA), machine learning in vision, text, and other domains, the emerging decision intelligence ecosystem, the...
Are we getting dumber? Or is stuff just harder? Both are true. Between-silo problems are the new bottleneck. We’re inundated with information, so we take cognitive short cuts. And “wicked” problems keep getting...
Conferences are for meetings. Project teams build deliverables. Data is for data scientists. Online communities are for social contact. Until now, when a new mix is emerging. Can we solve difficult problems in a...
When asked “who created Apple?”, it’s tempting to say Steve Jobs did it. The truth is that, although he may have been necessarily, he was not sufficient. Similarly Bill Gates, who (as Malcolm Gladwell...
Last month I received an intriguing email inviting me to an event at Kimberly Wiefling’s house. I’d met Kimberly before through Jonathan Trent, as part of the work I’ve been doing to help out...
This popped up today: (thanks, Ray Podder!) Of course. It’s a Bucky Ball.
