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Digital Year in Review — 2024.

It is that time of year again: Time to look back at information technology in 2024 and make light of it. As with reviews, this one will be arranged like an award ceremony. There are three criteria for the dozen awards we give out this year:• The award must be for something involving digital technology.• The key event must have taken place this year, 2024.• The award cannot take itself seriously. The event receiving attention must lend itself to sass, sarcasm, and ridicule.

A Review of Fei-Fei Li’s book, The Worlds I see.

The Worlds I See. Curiosity, Exploration, and the Discovery at the Dawn of AI—Fei-Fei Li (New York, NY, USA: Flatiron Books, 2023, 322 pp.)

After the Gold Rush

The commercial future of AI will soon be bigger than the actions of any firm, individual, research team, or open-source community. In the near term, a massive tailwind of potential use cases and nearly completed projects will determine the rate of progress in creating value for users and suppliers. Still, the source of the next frontier commercial breakthrough and the distribution of profits look undetermined and, for reasons to be explained, underdetermined.

The AI Gold Rush

Large language models (LLMs) have overrun commercial markets, more like a tsunami than a normal technical wave of interest. The topic is everywhere –news stories, blogs, podcasts, startup investments, analyst reports, hackathons, and government announcements. A virtual frenzy surrounds it.

The digital year in review 2023

It is time to review the year in digital technology. Oh, what fun! As with prior reviews, we will arrange this review like an award ceremony.

There are three criteria for an award:

Digital Year in Review

Digital year in review 2021

It is time for the digital awards of 2021! This is a review of the year in digital technology, told with a bit of sass and snark. In keeping with the times, this year-in-review award ceremony will be a virtual experience.

Amazon’s bad receipts

WE CAN GET THEM TO CHANGE — PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION.

When I (or someone else in my household) orders something from Amazon, i get emailed a receipt. This is useful because then I can see what was ordered, whether it is the right thing or shout at someone who ordered something we already have.

Before August 2020, they looked like this.

The year in review for digital technology

It is that time of the year again! Time to review the digital events of 2020 and recognize achievements. Your humble correspondent has no idea how to do this at a grand scale without making a mockery of it. If the post can skewer Hollywood at the same time, then all the better.

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