ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: Hacked Ice Cream Makers at McDonalds A very strange right to repair! If you buy an expensive machine, do you have the right to buy a third-party add-on that makes it work better?…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: Racist (and other offensive) Tech Jargon Words matter. The most obvious example is “master/slave” but there’s plenty of other insensitive terminology around. Remember, these terms might make sense to you, but you clients…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: Will Bots Take Jobs? AI Robots are coming for your jobs! Or – in a much more realistic interpretation, they are coming to reduce the amount of mundane process work that humans do…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: Should you rely on best practices? We return to the question of what ARE best practices and how you define them. But more than that, should you be following other peoples’ so-called best…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: Stop Talking About Multicloud and Hybrid Cloud It’s time to take this seriously and talk about Integration. As always, we take a stab at the terminology used by our industry and ponder about…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: Cops and Robots Move to stop NYC police from using armed robots. Note: The police do not own any armed robots, but they do own some robots. So this is totally a preventive…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: AI Mayflower to Cross the Atlantic This is a recreation of the Mayflower voyage with a 100% autonomous ship. Great for research and proof of concept. The Smithsonian doesn’t talk about autonomous shipping…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: What works, works: Big Tech Targets DC via Old-School Media Facebook, Amazon, and Google ads are blanketing inside-the-Beltway newsletters in a bid to rehab their tarnished reputations. The big tech companies are getting…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: Drone-Killing Drones Great video from “Drone Hunter.” AI Powered Drone captures and eliminates drones over no-fly zones, concerts, football games, public addresses by politicians, etc. Karl notes that we hope California deploys these…
ByKarl W. Palachuk Topic 1: ChannelPro State of the Channel survey Bruised but roaring back? We you bruised in 2020? Is this a real reflection of the real channel? Or is this a sampling issue? As always, we…
