Autumn=the season of events- Signal #4 Men, machines, and the industrial Internet(s) Hello friends! First, some personal news: Jon turned 43 this week. It’s a nice prime number, even presidential. (And that president was Dubya. Interpret that as you will.) Also, it means he’s out of the 厄年(yakudoshi, i.e., “bad luck year”) age […]
Category Archives: technology
GE’s Next Big Thing: Software
The thought of GE as a software company is a hard one to stomach. One would think that a corporation whose core industries include Oil & Gas, Power & Water, Transportation, and Energy Management would be an appetizer for software as it continues to eat the world. As it turns out, this may still be […]
Good Robots
Much has been made in the press about how robots are going to take our jobs and other perceived threats. It’s not unusual to see some snarky comment about “our robot overlords” in an article somewhere. So, we’re glad to point out a couple of really good applications for robots. So, do you feel like […]
Bring on the (autonomous driving) machines
On July 18, Reid Hoffman published an article extolling the “asphalt utopia” that autonomous cars can bring. I won’t go quite that far, but it did put words to some thoughts I’d been chewing on. Living and driving in the San Francisco area, day in and day out I see drivers looking up and down […]