Tag: business strategy
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WHEN BIGGER STOPS BEING SMARTER
For the article excerpt/teaser, I’d use: We are building bigger and bigger machines in order to make them smarter. But what happens when increasing size requires more of their intelligence merely to manage their own complexity? From Leopold Kohr in 1957, through IBM and the mainframe era, to today’s vast AI data centers, an old…
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HOW BIG BLUE ROPED ME BACK INTO THE CIA SADDLE
Just when I thought I had finally retired from analyzing the computer industry, IBM had other ideas. A Wall Street Journal headline about the biggest one-day decline in Big Blue’s history unexpectedly roped me back into the CIA saddle—not the one in Langley, but the one I first envisioned at a computer industry show in…
