Some people are into the red carpet spectacles at self-congratulatory award shows where underfed actresses showcase costumes that we last saw in the 1960s movie Barbarella. We get our celebrity fix when Forbes publishes its annual list of the 400 richest Americans. It doesn’t hurt to dream, right? The methodology that goes into putting together […]
The notion of nanoscale self-replicating machines getting out of control and covering the earth in “gray goo” is an idea proposed by Eric Drexler in his 1986 book Engines of Creation. Similar to how cancer cells begin multiplying in an out of control fashion and wreaking havoc in a host organism, machines might be capable of doing something very […]
You’d have to be living in the DRPK to not have heard about the ever-increasing list of artificial intelligence (AI) applications. Some experts say that 80% of all service jobs will be replaced, and it’s not just white collar jobs that are on the chopping block. Everyone has reason to be concerned, except of course […]
Whenever you speak with recruiters, they’ll usually start going on about the “war for talent” which is just an attempt at making their job sound a lot more difficult than it actually is. There are always people looking to hire and people looking to get hired. Eventually, we’ll just lose the middleman entirely. How hard is […]
Just last week, a data company called Alteryx (NYSE:AYX) went public, raising $120 million and giving them a market cap of around $828 million. Speculation is that now the data theme is heating up and in turn people are starting to blab on about “data driven cultures” and “trusting your data, not your gut”. The […]