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You have got to watch this!! It starts as an Apple spoof, but then develops into ……. ….. hold it, I must not give the ending away, although the title gives you a clue. My thanks to Clive Flashman for this. Interesting example of the blogosphere in operation by the way. Clive linked to me […]
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I went to see the ENO’s production of Glass’s second opera last night. It covers Ghandi’s period in South Africa from Tolstoy Farm to the New Castle March. There is just one performance left (tonight) so if you are in London and can free up the time I strongly recommend getting a ticket. It normally […]
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Dave Snowden
Both Matt and Johnnie Moore (are they related one asks?) pick up on Bain’s 2007 Management Tools Survey. The front page is really scary – you see a row of chisels (reproduced here) which adds a whole new dimension to the idea of does your face fit (see the title to this blog entry). I […]
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This is the first of three blogs arising from my visit to Moscow this week, for the first time since the aftermath of the events of 1989. One will represent my reflections on Moscow itself, the second will summarise my various presentations and discussion on How to get started in Knowledge Management. I am not, […]
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Dave Snowden
Two of the four lists serves in which I am, for the moment, participating have picked up anti-blog themes over the last few weeks. The criticism appear to fall into three types: The argument of control or license, this surfaced on the AOK forum and was supported by two current and one former Knowledge Management […]
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Dave Snowden
There is an old joke that I repeat from time to time (well that is the essence of an old joke). It goes like this: A: Do you think computers will exceed humans in intelligence in the future? B: Yes, because we are planning to meet them half way During the last century we got […]
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Dave Snowden
I don’t know if I should be amused, disturbed or distressed by this article in Spiegel magazine. Replicating a part of the cerebal cortex of a young rat with 10K computer chips hardly approaches a human brain in complexity, or that of any mammal for that matter. The energy consumption for anything more substantial would […]
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Dave Snowden
The diagram above was used by John Poindexter when he introduced the technology session last week at the IRAHS Symposium. This event brought together a really interesting and diverse range of people from all over the world. John used the diagram to provide a general context for the presentations and discussions that followed. I scribbled […]
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Dave Snowden
A rushed day last Thursday, between taking the cat to the Vet, completing a paper on modulators in complex systems and dashing up to London for a just-in time-arrival at the Royal Opera House for what turned out to be a mixed performance of Madama Butterfly: The lead soprano missing a note at the start […]
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