Rich Washburn

For five years, we've debated what artificial intelligence would do to employment. Now the numbers are arriving. The early picture isn't mass unemployment or business as usual. It's something considerably more interesting: a fundamental change in what human work is worth. Well, Here We Are For roughly five years, we've had the same conversation. Will AI replace jobs? Will it create new jobs? Will productivity explode? What happens when machines can perform the cognitive labor millions of...

The next computing revolution might not be a faster laptop. It might be the realization that your laptop doesn't need to be fast at all. Every once in a while, I come across a piece of technology that makes my inner nerd sit up a little straighter. Not necessarily because it's going to change the world tomorrow. Not because somebody has raised seventeen billion dollars to disrupt an industry nobody knew needed disrupting. And certainly not because there's an AI-generated marketing video...

Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show, Day One: Questionable engineering, unreasonable leverage, expensive boats, and the occupational hazards of being helpful. I think I may have a problem. Actually, several. The first is that I can't go anywhere without turning an ordinary conversation into a technology project. The second is that I can't recognize when I've already accomplished enough for one day. And the third, which became especially relevant on Day One, is that I have no idea how to...