by Dwayne Phillips We reinvent the past and give it a new name. IBM is pushing into the cloud computing business. They are “behind” the competition, but have hopes of making ground and money with “hybrid” technologies. Let’s consider this idea of hybrid cloud. I trust the cloud provider to keep my stuff reliably and […]
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The Hybrid Cloud: Forward to the Past
October 10th, 2019 · No Comments
Tags: Computing · History · Technology
AI: Some History and Some Future
July 18th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips Some of us have been here before. “AI” is hot again. Perhaps this time the future will be different from the past, but I doubt it. I worked extensively in AI in the 1980s. What I see today is remarkably similar. This is due to what I believe is a gross misunderstanding […]
Tags: History · Learning · Technology
The Clipboard and the Pencil: Recording History
June 13th, 2019 · No Comments
by Dwayne Phillips The clipboard and the pencil are perhaps the simplest yet effective tools for doing something important: recording history. And if we don’t have our history, we will repeat work and waste resources. I was in high school—a long time ago in a place far, far away. It was the train station (no […]
Tags: Accountability · History · Resources · Tools