In God and AI we trust?
A future without boredom
Amazon is disrupting the publishing world….again
Telling your disruption story from the Peak of Inflated Expectations to the Slopes of Enlightenment
The automation all around us
The Disruption Ecosystem
Digital remembrance of things past
by Sarah Firisen My grandmother had 7 sisters (and a couple of brothers who died young and none of us remember), my great-grandmother had 10 siblings. This past week, I attended reunions with 22 of the descendents of these ancestors, on two continents (New York and London). At these joyful family gatherings we told stories,…
The Future of Living
Marriage on the blockchain
The leadership dilemma of AI…or…Leadership, the Next Generation.
by Sarah Firisen Watch this video. No, I mean, right now, go and watch this video, I’ll wait. Even if you don’t agree with all of it, even if you think it’s unnecessary scaremongering, you should still find it thought provoking and at least a little scary (most people find it terrifying), and if you…
The tyranny of things and how virtual reality will set us free
Disintermediating the trust equation or how to make sure you’re not talking to a dog
The future will be virtual and augmented
by Sarah Firisen Science fiction has always run the gamut from extreme prescience on one end to paranoid fantastical delusions at the other, and everything in between. But it has always done more than merely try to predict future technologies, it has played its part in our imagining of the future. From the imaginations of…
The Convergence of Things
by Sarah Firisen President-elect Trump, along with so many other gaping holes in his knowledge, seems, for all his evident command of social media, to not really get the modern computer age. On the one hand, this is both astounding and terrifying. It’s one thing to have your 70 year old grandmother not understand or…
Making the world a nicer place, one Virtual Reality at a time
Is it a brave new world if you’re a woman?
Leadership lessons from The Walking Dead – (Donald Trump, take note!)
by Sarah Firisen Anyone can be in charge. Being in charge isn’t the same as being a leader. We've all known great leaders. People that we’d walk through fire for, but what makes them such great leaders? As the Presidential primary season gets under way, perhaps it’s worth considering what leadership really is. Because despite…
The ugly truth about your Facebook friends
by Sarah Firisen The world seems a very depressing, scary place these days. Maybe it always was. I remember being 12 years old and driving with my father and expressing to him how terrified I was by the possibility of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. He talked to me about mutual assured destruction and…