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The innovator’s dilemma
The way in which technological change occurs in industries has always interested me. One quite well known book on this subject is “The Innovator’s Dilemma” by Clayton M. Christensen. Here’s a nice post on a friend’s blog that summarises the … Continue reading
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Tagged Economics, Hardware, Start-up
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Tick, tock, tick, tock…
I recently read about IBM’s Sequoia supercomputer that will be operational in 2011. It will perform 20 Peta FLOPS and have 1.6 Peta bytes of RAM. To put that in perspective: if it were to attempt to simulation a human … Continue reading
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Tagged AGI, Computer Power, Hardware, Singularity, Supercomputers
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Learning to predict the future
One of the things I’ve been thinking about recently is the prediction of the future. Many people really enjoy doing this and come up with all sorts of wild speculations. It’s kind of like having the liberty to write your … Continue reading