There’s something exciting happening if you look up. No, not at your ceiling. Set your sights on the stars. The biggest telescope ever launched into space, James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is soon going to be able to send its first images back to Earth. A lot of engineering ‘firsts’ had to happen before this even became possible.

With this post, I’ve tried to demonstrate how much technology is available to us. I’ve shown how we can quickly find information, transform it and connect it in new ways.Perhaps we can even make some money. But more importantly, this is a way to have a little bit of fun and play time. Make that your recurrent pattern.

When you remove all the hype, the artificial labeling and you find a technology which helps people with their problems, improving their lives and well being. That’s when magic happens.

We can develop really great technology to do amazing things, but all the hope that technology can become AI won't work when we feed it with utter nonsense. To build better AI, we have to learn how to ask better questions. It will follow our example. Maybe there is even hope for HR to get better.

Yes, there are people and organizations sitting on large amounts of bitcoin. But their ability to use it or change it to fiat currency is getting more and more difficult. The network for storing and trading bitcoin (and other digital assets) is growing and getting more transparent. Some see it as a good thing; some as a betrayal of the promise of anonymity, privacy and decentralization.

The road to the Metaverse runs through entertainment and through the devices we use to get there. Apple is the one company which can pull it off. It is a plausible recurrent pattern.

We are at the end of the old social network platforms era. Facebook is trying to move itself to the utopia of Metaverse and the new kids like TikTok are desperately trying to get your attention. They all know that in order to survive they need to get money from you. Otherwise, they are done.

Forgetting is a highly personal experience. It is a curse and blessing at the same time. Your brain's forgetting functionality works in a mysterious way which is not understood. Trying to develop an algorithm to mimic that doesn’t have much prospect of success. In fact, it’s unclear how they could even measure success.

There have been many Dark Ages when knowledge is lost or forgotten. In this case, technology is helping us to forget the past much faster. Ironically, we are creating a new Dark Age. This will be a period which future generations will know little or nothing about.

Some of the most well-known companies in the world say they are trying to drive innovation - but are getting hung up when their technology works exactly as designed. It’s almost like the people who build technology should be thinking about strategy before they build it.