ItSeemstoMe is my personal blog and newsletter. It is for business decision makers and is about disruptive technologies. I mostly cover Immersive Technologies such as AR and non-gaming VR as well as AI-powered products such as autonomous cars, robots, chatbots, drones and wearable tech. I am always looking for a good story and if you have one, we should talk.
I recently had dinner with Shawn Frayne, founder and CEO of Looking Glass Factory, a startup with offices in Brooklyn and Hong Kong. He’s the sort of entrepreneur who is Hell bent on changing the world or at least the Immersive Technology portion of it.
A little over six months ago, I announced I was going into the ghostwriting business and would dedicate half my…
For more than 60 years, proponents of Artificial Intelligence have been divided—often acrimoniously—into two camps: Autonomy vs. Augmentation. Autonomy proponents…
I recently attended the 10th annual Augmented World Expo (AWE) at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Silicon Valley. With 7,000 attendees— up almost 25 percent from last year— over 350 speakers and 250 booth exhibits, it was by far the biggest event ever for the Immersive Technology community.
I am about halfway through Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee. I am only halfway through because I am reading more slowly and carefully than I usually read. This is partly because almost every page causes me to stop and think about the deteriorating relationship between people and technology and the self-evident truth of this broadside against the most powerful company in history is painful for me to accept.
I am about to complete my first ghostwriting assignment, and it has convinced me that this is something I want to continue to do.
The following has nothing to do with tech at all: but it has a great deal to do with life,…
Let’s begin with my apology. In ISTM #15, I referred to Synthesia Technologies as a purveyor of Deep Fake news…
I am an advisor to the San Francisco chapter of the VR/AR Association. At a recent event, I learned about…