AI and Quantum Computing?
AI and quantum computing both frequently feature in the technical news nowadays as hot technologies but in the case of true AI, which is...
the spanitis blogger
Oct 26, 2020
Should we think of Big Tech as Big Brother? (FT headline)
The above FT headline on 4th January 2019 captioned a review of Shoshana Zuboff's book 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' which the...
FT reader
Jan 7, 2019
Batch Is Back! Real Time Data's Rise & Fall
A spanitis blog entry a few years ago identified the divergence of 'free' services, such as those offered by advertising companies like...
the spanitis blogger
Mar 18, 2018
Goodbye to the blockchain fad?
This blogger has always thought that blockchain databases with their well known technical limitations which include an abysmal...
OLTP Head
Mar 14, 2018
How do you program a quantum computer?
We're hearing a lot about quantum computers and how they will revolutionize computing, mostly because they will be blazingly fast. Sounds...
the spanitis blogger
Mar 6, 2018
Technology's Ruthless Profiteers
On December 31st 2017 the UK Sunday Times published a front page article under the headline "Tech titans told: join terror fight or face...
The Ranter
Jan 3, 2018
More to life?
Boot camp rebels: tech developers quit corporate careers Disappointed with “big tech”, coders are starting social impact start-ups Above...
Trend spotter
Oct 27, 2017
Death by Collaboration?
The current fad for collaboration focused work environments is based on ......... what evidence? Mostly anecdotes in fact. Like the...
Trend spotter
Sep 15, 2017
Are You Coding For Big Brother?
In today's (15th May 2017) Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar has written a disturbing article entitled "Silicon Valley has too...
The Ranter
May 15, 2017
AI - A History Of Hype
Over the last 50 years or more the history of AI has been a history of excessive hype. In the 1960s Marvin Minsky predicted that the...
the spanitis blogger
May 8, 2017
