Kirk Klasson

Apple Intelligence: Better Late Than Never or Better Never Late
Published July 11, 2024 - No Comments
Apple’s prolonged absence from the AI tech melt up has been the biggest elephant ever to dance on a conference room table since the transistor was invented. Having basically created the category of natural language assistants with the introduction of Siri over a decade ago (see Proph ...
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Poppycock and Jabberwocky: The Impending Collapse of Free Range Language Models and Just About Everything Else
Published April 15, 2024 - No Comments
Authenticity. Its value is almost inestimable. Politicians crave it. Business leaders dedicate endless hours to secure it. Every pretender to the public’s attention, clergy, street poets and TikTok influencers, hopes to possess it even while crafting prevarications that belie their v ...
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The Saucerer’s Apprentice: AI Co-Pilots in the Enterprise Cockpit
Published January 23, 2024 - No Comments
There’s a story I’m fond of recounting about when I was part of a team that stood-up a computer factory in Ireland many years ago. It was one of many such initiatives that were sponsored by the Irish Development Authority (IDA) that granted ten year tax holidays to foreign-base ...
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: Large Language Models Are Having a Moment But The Future of AI Is Hyperdimensional
Published May 5, 2023 - No Comments
If by now you haven’t heard about ChatGPT and all its various cousins, acquaintances and relations you might want to check some recent obituaries cause there’s a better than even chance you’re deceased. Notice just what happened? The suggestion that your very existence is ...
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“We’re Gonna Need Some Faster Rats” – Leadership in the Post-Covid, Post-Millennial, Post-Monopoly World
Published February 15, 2023 - No Comments
The dominate theme in the history of high tech has been that of continuous growth. Ever since Moore laid down his famous Law, the promise of enduring productivity has been fulfilled over and over again and the industry has been rewarded with decades of what seems to be uninterrupted growth ...
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Tech in the Land that Rates Forgot
Published October 26, 2022 - No Comments
This one is for all you high rollers that loaded up on low rate margin and went all in on NASD eye candy only to run screaming from the market like a preacher from the local brothel when the church ladies staged a “discovery tour” to find out where their husbands went. It isn’t e ...
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The Quantum of Quan: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Quantum Neuromorphology
Published April 29, 2022 - No Comments
So, in my free time I’ve been doing a lot of thinking, you know the usual stuff, where I left my car keys, will the Fed destroy the economy, how will the usual group of numbskulls start World War III and, when they do, will prepping really make a difference? Then I stumbled on to [&h ...
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Metaverse Schmetaverse
Published August 16, 2021 - No Comments
Back in 2007, in the land rush to social media marketing, I was asked to explore Second Life as a potential marketing venue for a B2B value proposition. And the only way one could explore such a medium was to “immerse” oneself, travel through its landscapes, meet its denizens and inter ...
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Going Native
Published February 11, 2021 - No Comments
Recently, I was captivated by a small blurb in Venture Beat about a company that had just left stealth mode after securing it’s latest round of funding. The whole notion of leaving stealth mode conjures up images of a rouge space ship lowering its cloaking device because it needs it ...
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Somatosensoricity: Mastering Touch
Published November 13, 2020 - No Comments
What’s in a name? An ancestor, a zeitgeist, some whimsey and dreams? Entrepreneurs often think long and hard about names before the marketing types get involved. Because once names are set, they get sticky, and sometimes the goo won’t come off your shoe. Take Smart Dust. ...
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Work in the time of Covid
Published March 16, 2020 - No Comments
By now, it’d be safe to assume that you are thoroughly versed in social distancing, rigorously practiced in hazmat antiseptic procedures and have joyfully embraced the art of living prophylactically. All things routinely proscribed by the Germaphobe’s Handbook of Acceptable Hyg ...
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The Paltry Cost of Priceless Externalities
Published January 14, 2020 - No Comments
For the past few years, anyone who has been paying attention has come face to face with the economic phenomenon known as externalities. Popularized by causes like climate change, it is by no means something all that novel or vogue. Ronald Coase was one of the first to discuss the concept b ...
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Stalking the Snark: Invariant Counterfactuals, Transcendental Deductions and the Future of AI
Published May 30, 2019 - No Comments
I’d like to start off by acknowledging that this is the kind of post that if it were a drug, a machine tool or a firework, the government would insist that it be accompanied by a warning. Something along the lines of… “toying with this crap while inebriated could be bad for you. Espe ...
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Beyond the Cyber-Cryptoverse, the Next Incarnation of the Internet Awaits
Published February 26, 2019 - No Comments
Over the years this blog has dealt with the nature of change and innovation as a primary feature of the high tech industry. In Hacking the Future 2.0 we suggested that the means for creating change of unimaginable magnitude have become increasingly open, accessible and ubiquitous. And you ...
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Hacking the Future 2.0……

Published January 13, 2015 at 1:05 pm - No Comments

Ahhh, a brand new year and I predict there will be predictions… Well it’s that time of year, once again the Consumer Electronics Show is in full swing and suddenly the Jetsons are once again in vogue. The year was 1962. And suddenly in prime time, a newly discovered advertising interval, from the miasma of […] IWEBIX Webdesign

The Invisible Hand . . . . .

Published November 3, 2013 at 6:18 pm - No Comments

Ronald Coase has taken his leave, leaving behind several intriguing propositions that still twist in the crucible of the Internet…. Years ago with the advent of the World Wide Web all sorts of experts proclaimed that we stood on the threshold of a new economy, see The New Economy Primer, before us was a world whose […]

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Apple Intelligence: Better Late Than Never or Better Never LatePublished July 11, 2024 at 11:59 am
Poppycock and Jabberwocky: The Impending Collapse of Free Range Language Models and Just About Everything ElsePublished April 15, 2024 at 7:49 am
The Saucerer’s Apprentice: AI Co-Pilots in the Enterprise CockpitPublished January 23, 2024 at 5:54 pm
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: Large Language Models Are Having a Moment But The Future of AI Is HyperdimensionalPublished May 5, 2023 at 10:47 am
“We’re Gonna Need Some Faster Rats” – Leadership in the Post-Covid, Post-Millennial, Post-Monopoly WorldPublished February 15, 2023 at 11:27 am
Tech in the Land that Rates ForgotPublished October 26, 2022 at 3:06 pm
The Quantum of Quan: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Quantum NeuromorphologyPublished April 29, 2022 at 11:24 am
Metaverse SchmetaversePublished August 16, 2021 at 8:38 am

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