Forget the Apps, Now the bots take over… Techcrunch

I was intrigued by this article in Techcrunch this morning: Forget Apps, Now The Bots Take Over A similar paradigm is emerging from IoT devices. The complexity of so many apps and so many devices is becoming mind-boggling. In order to deal with it I have started to use a number of automations to […]

Virtual Virtual Reality, Virtual Anthropomorphic Reality, Virtual Functional Reality, Virtual Extended Reality

Virtual Reality I categorize virtual reality into these 4 different types. They are progressively more difficult technologies but each will progress independently. VVR, VAR, VFR, VER represent the 4 ways VR technology can be used. VVR is about creating false worlds or artificial computer generated worlds. VAR is about transferring ourselves in […]

The virtuous circle Connected Health will drive Healthcare improvements faster

Change is happening in our health care system in the US. There are a number of factors both endogenous to the health care industry and external to it converging to create a real chance for significant change. Evidence for that change are numerous including a biotech boom, genetics boom, information systems boom. […]

Deep Learning Part 3 – Why CNN and DBN are far way from human intelligence

How do current CNN compare to the scale of the human brain? We know that the human brain consists of a 21 billion neurons and somewhere between 1 trillion and 1000 trillion dendrite connections. The closest species is an Elephant which has half as many neurons as a human brain. We can therefore postulate that […]

Is Deep Learning AI going to result in human intelligence or better anytime soon – the setup?

Does a significant advance like the recent advances in AI presage a massive new potentially dangerous robotic world? Elon Musk Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and others. have stated that recent advances in AI, specifically around CNN (Convoluted Neural Nets) also called Deep Learning has the potential to finally represent real AI. This is exciting and worrisome […]

Iot (Internet of Things), $7 Trillion, $14 Trillion or $19 Trillion? A personal look

IoT 7 TRILLION, 14 TRILLION or 19 TRILLION DOLLARS! Internet of Things market to hit $7.1 trillion by 2020: IDC Mar 14, 2013 – SAN JOSE, Calif. –Cisco Systems is gearing up for what it claims could be $14 trillion opportunity with the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things: 19 Trillion Dollar Market – […]

Why Open Source has changed from the cheapest software to the best software

Over the last 5 years we have seen a transformation in the way Open Source is viewed in Enterprises that is significant. 1. Open source underwent a massive increase over the last 5 years with the help of organizations such as Google, Twitter, Facebook, Netflix and many others. The number of new projects continues […]

Breakout MegaTrends that will explode in 2015, part 2 CIO Priorities

This year has been a breakout year for a number of key technology trends, part 2 CIO Priorities 9. CIO priorities will shift from cost abatement to “digitization” 2013 and 2014 were for most large organizations an experimental period with the cloud and many new technologies. One of the biggest movements that many CXO’s […]

Breakout MegaTrends that will explode in 2015.

This year has been a breakout year for a number of key technology trends. I will go through what I think are the trends that established themselves and the winning trends for 2015 that will gain adoption Here is my list of what I think are the major technology disruptions in 2015 (in no particular order): 1. APIs […]

Tech Explosion the greatest in history. Things that cost millions of dollars are costing thousands. Things that took years are taking months.

Yes, I’m an optimist, so you might put a grain of salt next to my unmitigated optimism about how things will go but I think we are seeing the greatest time in technology history unfolding and it is breathtaking and fun to participate and think about. I believe it will have an impact on our […]