CES 2020

Appearances & Press, CES, Focus: AR/VR, technology trends

In a week! – I’m going to CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas for the first time; while I’m increasingly daunted by the sheer SIZE of the event (multiple locations, miles and miles of walking) I’m also increasingly excited about what I’m going to experience there. Tons of amazing talks on the future immersive tech, entertainment, healthcare, living…and AI…and…and…phew, I’m tired already 😉 Thankfully I’m getting a tour with David Polinchok, an industry old timer who’s been giving tours around the floor for a few years now. Looking forward to seeing everything and

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Our truthy future

Deepfakes, Musing, technology trends

I’m listening to a podcast where they are talking about using interviews with Holocaust survivors as future unalienable “proof” to deniers that it actually happened…what I can’t stop thinking is, with rapidly advancing video editing (and deepfakes) anything we see won’t be any proof at all. Which begs the question…how will anyone know *anything* they see, or hear is real? We are already in the age of “truthiness”, to steal a Stephen Colbert term that hit the nail on the oh-so-perfect-head; if social media is already manipulating us, and we as consumers only believe

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Addendum / Manufacturing and automation

Macro trends, technology trends

A follow up article  by Technology Review addressing some of the points I touched on in my last blog post,” Learning to be Human“. “Those who would help displaced factory workers need to think much more urgently about how to provide for and accelerate what policymakers euphemistically call “adjustment” for the victims of economic shocks like deindustrialization.”

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Augmented reality: A primer

Augmented reality, Focus: AR/VR, technology trends

I recently had a friend who is a professional artist ask me to explain what the tech behind the PokemonGo phenomenon is, and how he can use it in his work. I’m pasting a bit of my response to him for those who are curious. Augmented Reality (AR) is a fascinating technology, one that’s actually been around for a while – but PokemonGo has brought it into the mainstream. What is augmented reality? A way to superimpose something created over the “real” world. It adds to reality, rather than replaces it. Some call it

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