How is your digital mindset?
Digital firms have quietly gone about setting their own rules for how businesses should be run (see e.g. How Google Works by Schmidt & Rosenberg, 2014) – a good few of those now apply to…
A Critical Stance on AI
I was invited to give a keynote at the iSChannel 20th Anniversary celebration at my old university, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, last week. Here’s my written version of the talk. It’s…
All LLMs hallucinate – Here’s how you can still trust them
Hallucinations in Large Language Models (LLM) like ChatGPT are here to stay, as recently confirmed by an OpenAI blogpost. But how do they affect users‘ trust and the way users interact with LLMs? In a…
Will we all own autonomous cars soon?
The future is already here, it’s just not evenly distributed. Autonomous driving has been the next big thing for at least 10 years, and by now, there are successful implementations in several places. But how…
Plurality: An open approach to democracy and technology
I spent a good few weeks reading and trying to grok a book, Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy, by E. Glen Weyl and Audrey Tang and their community. I knew about Audrey…
No more Google (for now)!
Who would have thought? After religiously using it for around 25 years (and working there for 6), I stopped using Google as my default search engine for now. What happened? There have been on-going complaints…
Turning the facts of the world into data, information… and decisions
A new way to conceptualize data and information can give insights into what happens when we digitalize business processes – starting from the facts of the world and considering how they can be turned into…
Slow Productivity
As a long-term supporter of Slow Food, I am always happy to see its principles applied to other areas (I guess the general principle is to focus on quality and enjoyment, not on the time…
Where is the data we have lost in Information Systems?
Towards a model of digitalization This post is in progress and may change over time. Do give feedback, or come back later to see how it develops. Where is the Life we have lost in…