…Metaphysic, a group that uses artificial intelligence technology to create hyper-real content, turned Simon Cowell into a world-class opera singer during the auditions, then brought Howie Mandel and Terry Crews into the mix during the Quarterfinals. The AGT judges wondered how the group could possibly outdo themselves for the finals, and on Tuesday, that’s exactly what they did when they brought the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, and Las Vegas, back to life. Read More
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Mid-Decade Challenges to National Competitiveness
A contest for the future is unfolding. By the end of this decade, we will know if we will live in a world shaped by free expression, tolerance, and self-determination or dictated by censorship and coercion. We will know whether a government for the people or a government that dictates to the people prevails in the contest to organize modern societies. We will know whether a wave of technological innovation is applied to improve society and human welfare or directed for control and conquest. How this future plays out will be shaped by the technology competition between the United States and China.
What does losing look like? What would it look like if the overall technology competition went the wrong way? Understanding the states requires imagining a world in which an authoritarian state controls the digital infrastructure, enjoys the dominant position in world’s technology platforms, controls the means for production for critical technologies, and harnesses a new wave of general purpose technologies like biotech and new energy technologies to transform its society, economy, and military. Read More
Data Warehouse vs. Data Lake vs. Data Streaming: Friends, Enemies, Frenemies?
The concepts and architectures of a data warehouse, a data lake, and data streaming are complementary to solving business problems. Storing data at rest for reporting and analytics requires different capabilities and SLAs than continuously processing data in motion for real-time workloads. Many open-source frameworks, commercial products, and SaaS cloud services exist. Unfortunately, the underlying technologies are often misunderstood, overused for monolithic and inflexible architectures, and pitched for wrong use cases by vendors. Read More
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