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Happy Holidays

I hope everyone had happy and healthy holidays with friends and family. I look forward to sharing stories in the weekly e-brief beginning next week. One of my goals this year is to expand readership of the e-brief. Feedback is very positive and I hope you agree it would be nice to share it with […]

The That Syndrome – 3

Journalists and authors seem to love the word “that”. My record breaking pick of the week comes from news a article quoting “a source familiar with some of the administration’s internal deliberations”. Please ignore any political overtones here. This is not a political post. It is about the Six Thats in, “I think that there’s a […]

Robot Attitude on the Way

I want to thank all of my friends and family who have read the early drafts of Robot Attitude: How Robots and Artificial Intelligence Will Make Our Lives Better and given me feedback, edits, suggestions, etc. A special thanks to the six who provided beautiful blurbs. Here is the first one… “John Patrick adds to […]

Regulation or Strangulation?

Regulation is needed in many areas, like banking and healthcare. Sometimes,  however, regulators get carried away, and strangle innovation with too much regulation. This almost happened with Bitcoin. The regulation we need I call light regulation. In 1995, I was Chairman of the Global Internet Project. The board and I traveled around the world meeting […]

AI and Congress

On April 10th and 11th, 2018, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was questioned for almost 10 hours by senators and representatives before joint Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees regarding the company’s privacy policies and use of data collected on the company’s social media web site. The most used phrase in Mr. Zuckerberg’s responses was AI (artificial […]