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January 29, 2023Journalism, Technology

Experiments with ChatGPT

As I compose this edition of Foresight Friday (on Monday) I thought would post my ChatGPT experiments to my blog so that readers could easily see entire essays without making the email ridiculously long. My first request was to tell […]

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January 12, 2021Business, Internet, Technology

Wikipedia, St. Pete’s Tech Giant Turns 20

Wikipedia turns 20 this Friday, January 15, 2021, on what is known as “Wikipedia Day” around the world. Launched on January 15, 2001, “To create and freely distribute a free encyclopedia in all the languages of the world.” Wikipedia now contains […]

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December 22, 2014Corporate Empathy, Labor Cage, Technology

Lost Forever – Hundreds of Millions of Jobs and Scores of Industries

Technological unemployment is most often recognized as technology that directly replaces the work of humans because those losses are directly observable. Drive down any toll road in the world and you almost forget that just 10 years ago most people stopped to pay a […]

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December 1, 2014Business, Community Involvement, Corporate Empathy, Government, Technology

Ignoring This Trend Could Ruin Startup Incubators

For a while I have expressed concern about the future of startup business incubators that are not only in Tampa Bay but everywhere. Tampa Bay Innovation Center president Tonya Elmore noted in the Tampa Bay Times last year that every “city council member in […]

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September 10, 2014Business, Internet, Technology

Apple Enters Smartwatch Category But Won’t Change Demand

With Apple’s announcements yesterday it seems the brand is taking another full step into the direction of being an average consumer electronics device company. Compared to Steve Jobs’ previous absence due to his ouster in 1985 this time they are at least remaining […]

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June 16, 2014Business, Conscious Capitalism, Corporate Empathy, Education, Technology

Starbucks Takes First True Step into the Knowledge Economy

The terms “knowledge economy” and “digital age” have been thrown around by professionals, pundits, academics, and politicians in some form or another for at least 20 years. Until this week however not one of them has presented a real grasp of the […]

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June 12, 2014Business, Corporate Empathy, Technology, Urban Planning

What Would Walt Disney Do? Bringing Tech to Florida #WWWDD

In “Section I: Visions Lost” of my book Corporate Empathy I write about Walt Disney’s biggest most daring plan ever. A plan that was scrapped and disregarded as too risky after he died. A plan that if attempted then or today […]

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June 7, 2014Business, Corporate Empathy, Technology

Will Apple Learn From Yahoo? How Culture Cost Yahoo $19 Billion

This week’s unimpressive announcement by Apple about the new features to be included in iOS 8 following last month’s news that Google had overtaken Apple as the worlds most valuable brand highlights how severely damaged the company’s ability to innovate has […]

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March 23, 2014Corporate Empathy, Health & Wellness, Internet, Technology

The Up Side of Looking Down

Today we often read, hear about, or otherwise discuss how being constantly connected by technology through our smart phones and other devices to social media and the Internet is diminishing our appreciation for “real” conversations and building “real” relationships in […]

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January 15, 2014Advertising, Business, Corporate Empathy, Technology

Neoteny. Exploring the “Youthification” of Our Society

Last week Gary Vaynerchuk, author of Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook and The Thank You Economy posted an insightful article to LinkedIn about a dramatic shift that our society is experiencing right now that can be observed readily in pop culture […]

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