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Is The Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid?

Steve Rubel over at Micropersuasion is arguing that the Web 2.0 World is Skunk Drunk on Its Own Kool-Aid. His evidence includes:

No one's casting a cynical eye anymore.
No one's looking at valuations and reality
The endless dot-com parties are back.
So are the countless trade shows/conferences that regurgitate the same "new paradigms" the last 10 events did - with no end in sight.
And yes, the ridiculous BS press releases are flying into my Gmail box.

Steve might just have a point. I've discussed this with a few friends recently and they've pointed out that 'real' money is being made this time around. I'm still not convinced - does that make a cynic (or as my mate Ian would term it, a realist)?

Reflections from 2024: Innovating when the ground is moving

It is interesting to read back on old posts sometimes. One I came across is titled: AI Changes Everything. Way back in June 2024 I travelled to Boston to speak at FEI: Front End of Innovation conference, invited by old friend Seth Adler to speak about how AI was about

AI Agents Are Here: How Memory, Emergence, and Governance Will Make or Break the Agent Era

The Agent Era Isn’t Coming. It's here and it’s Already Messy. I spent an interesting evening at an agentic AI meetup with old friends Mark Pesce and John Allsop in the wilds of Waterloo in a brewery the other night. It really got me thinking about

What we need to think about for effective AI governance

People keep asking me: “What do we actually do about AI governance?”

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