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Predictions of a Media Merger Frenzy After the 1996 Telecom Act Seemed Funny at the Time... (opens the original)
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In April 1996, I wrote a column parodying the potential wave of mergers that would happen because of the landmark Telecommunications Act passed earlier that year.I thought I was being outrageous and funny. Haha.About a month ago, I got an email about the column from someone who has long worked in the industry. “It remains one of the most prescient pieces on how the modern day digital economy would evolve over the next 30 years,” he wrote. In fact, every few years someone brings up that column to
9/11: Defiant Soccer at a Charred Pentagon (opens the original)
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In September 2001, the Pentagon still had an expansive grassy lawn along one side of the building. People who worked in the Pentagon, and some outside guests, played pickup soccer on that lawn at noon on weekdays. By 2001, I had been one of those outside guests for years.I deeply enjoyed playing with those guys (and a few women) – officers, aides, Marines, Navy Seals – and made some lasting friends. The group had an extensive shared email list for announcements and getting organized. Most days,
Hawkins, Brains and Robots - Oh My! (opens the original)
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In my previous newsletter, I wrote about Jeff Hawkins, his decades-long quest to understand the human brain, and how he and his team have worked to translate that understanding into software – the kind of AI software that today everyone is calling “world models.”I’ve talked with him about his work since the early-2000s, as a journalist, author, and fascinated individual. Earlier this summer, when I saw the many news stories about <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamaji
Jeff Hawkins, Human Brains, and the Deep History of World Models (opens the original)
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The cool kids of AI are going crazy for “world models” – AI that works something like our brains do, and not at all like ChatGPT does.From everything I’ve read, this new generation apparently thinks world models are an awesome new thing to be discovered. But Jeff Hawkins, who invented the PalmPilot a lifetime ago, has been researching and developing this stuff for more than twenty years.</
An Age-Appropriate Song For the AI Era (opens the original)
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There just aren’t many (any?) songs about getting older and thinking that an AI chip implant might do wonders for your memory.So I made one. And used AI for the backing vocals. And the video. What a world.I actually wrote an early version of this song more than two decades ago. I don’t think I was actually experiencing memory lapses back then, but maybe now I can’t remember that, either. ;-)At the time, some early ideas were floating around about implanting computer chips in people’s brains. Tha
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