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How Many People Really Watched?
By: John F GroomWith the World Cup recently concluded and the U.S. professional football season soon to begin, we might ask a seemingly simple question: how many people actually watch these events?It...
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From a Competence Economy to an Exception Economy
By: John F GroomFor most of human history, being competent was enough. Most people worked in agriculture. Farming methods were passed from one generation to another, and while some farmers were certa...
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From Clay Tablets to the Personal Vault: The Long History of Making Data Useful
By: John F GroomFor most of human history, information had an obvious problem: it disappeared. A person could know how many animals he owned, where a boundary lay, what happened in a battle, or how t...
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What Happened to Kinko’s? A Lesson for the AI Age
By: John F GroomTechnology does not always destroy an industry. Sometimes it destroys the reason an industry originally existed while leaving enough valuable pieces behind to build something new, Kin...
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Where Are the Robot Maids?
By: John F GroomWhat 100 Years of Failed Automation Predictions Can Teach Us About AIIn 1962, American television audiences were introduced to The Jetsons, a middle-class family living in the distant...
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Four Kinds of Scarcity in the Age of AI
By: John F GroomWhat an enormous book about Leonardo da Vinci can teach us about what becomes abundant, and what does notImagine an enormous TASCHEN art book devoted to Leonardo da Vinci. It is the s...
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When New Technologies Replace, and When They Don’t
By: John F GroomEvery generation predicts that its newest technology will completely replace what came before it. Sometimes that prediction is correct. More often, it is only partly true.Understandin...
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The Structural Vacuum
Why Human Attention Defaults to the Path of Least Resistance and Why the AI Era Requires New Organizing StructuresBy John F. Groom, Founder, DataUniversaFor most of human history, people did not need...
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Artificial Intelligence in an Age of Institutional Transition
Why Adaptive Structure Theory and an AI Ecosystem Are Needed for a Changing World By John F. Groom, Founder, DataUniversaArtificial intelligence is often discussed as though it were arriving in an oth...
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Comparitive Advantage Intelligence
Why the Next Generation of AI Is Not About Replacing Humans, But Completing ThemBy John F. Groom, Founder, DataUniversaExecutive SummaryMuch of the current discussion surrounding artificial intelligen...
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