Okay, let’s start with an answer to escape the doldrums of pretzel rationality. The answer is a combination of Audacity and Ignorance. I emphasize the conjunction because, without it, the standalone audacity or ignorance is just that: running headlong into a concrete wall. Why pretzel logic? Well, mostly because it…

What does computing look like in the age of the modern Internet? Let’s start with the fundamental laws of thermodynamics. This law of physics represents the different states and forms of energy in a finite space-time. …

A quick survey for these of you who remember what Cloud Computing was back in the early 2000s: Did you envision the current public cloud vendors such as AWS, GCP, and Azure? I am guessing most of you did not foresee the scale and pace of the industry adoption we…

This phrase will evoke a different stress response from different people depending on the context of their memory. For me, it was the car trips with our two preteen kids. …

You are parched and were offered a choice of 50%-full or 10%-empty glasses of water, which would you choose? I suspect most of you will respond with something like “I will choose the fuller glass of water” followed by a murmur of something like “thanks for asking a stupid question!” …

Recently I had a conversion over a drink about the human-computer interface, and it got stuck in my head. This McCallan induced topic included the reference to Human-Computer Mentat from sci-fi author Frank Herbert’s Dune series. It all went downhill from here. The current computing paradigm based on silicon has…

There isn’t too much dispute that the ‘Big Data’ is the most used/misused IT jargon of this decade. What is Big Data? Everyone evidently has their own understanding of Big Data. All are not wrong, nor none are incorrect. Clear enough? …