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29 Apr A New Vision for the Learning Crisis

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The end of 2024 brought us no grand educational reckoning, no moment of consensus that we need to reimagine how adults learn. Instead, through 2025, we've settled into a peculiarly quiet collective exhaustion with the pandemic's educational experiments, paired with a creeping anxiety that something...

15 Apr The Standard, the Tooling, the Agent: Three Futures for BIM

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Some people asked me what I think of AI in the new Revit 2027. Other people asked me what I think of the entire Autodesk Cloud ecosystem being rebranded as Forma. More people requested I express an opinion on the lack of mention to agentic...

18 Feb Don’t Rage Against the Machines: fragmentation and human displacement in the age of AI

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A piece that started as a reflection around machine, human redundancies and artificial intelligence, and then all of a sudden started talking about smart working instead. Happy Birthday Modern Times A few weeks ago, Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times celebrated its 90th anniversary, and that sprang a conversation...

05 Feb Happy Birthday Modern Times

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Today's the 90th anniversary of the premiere of Chaplin's Modern Times, a story inspired by what the artist heard about Detroit's industries and about young people suffering from nervous breakdowns after a few years on the assembly line.As a movie, it's not my cup of...

28 Jan How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI: Fail Safe, HAL 9000 and IBM

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I am reading The Making of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey by Piers Bizony, these days, I book I originally bought for the pictures (as if often happens with Taschen) and that's revealing to be far more interesting than I gave it credit for....

03 Dec Asimov in the Age of Prompt-Writing

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a.k.a. How the Laws of Robotics Foretold the Logic of Large Language Models Introduction – The Machine That Dreamed in Logic Everyone is familiar with the Three Laws of Robotics.They’ve seeped into our cultural bloodstream: quoted in tech conferences, invoked in ethics debates, even recycled in AI...

26 Nov What’s Data Quality? A deep dive into ISO 8000-8:2015

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"The ISO 8000 series provides frameworks for improving data quality for specific kinds of data. The series defines which characteristics of data are relevant to data quality, specifies requirements applicable to those characteristics, and provides guidelines for improving data quality." An overview of the series and...

17 Oct The Three-Body Problem

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-- The following review contains heavy spoilers on Liu Cixin's first novel in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy: The Three-Body Problem. Proceed with caution -- The first time I opened The Three-Body Problem, I didn’t quite realise I was stepping into a new dimension of...

03 Sep Kafka in the C-Suite: Bureaucracy, Resistance, and the Digital Turn

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There is a scene, or rather a sensation, that repeats itself across time and professions: the quiet frustration of waiting for an answer that never comes, submitting an output whose purpose is unclear, knocking — figuratively or literally — on a door that leads only...

29 Aug Mediterranée 2050: a Journey into the Future of the Sea

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I first discovered the exhibition almost by chance, when a friend suggested we visit the aquarium in Monaco on our way back from a vacation and, as we approached the Musée Océanographique, your eyes might miss the towering poster on its facade: a luminous vision...