“Good-bye 2001. I won’t miss you. You were a very ugly year: one with breath so foul it would bring a buffalo to its knees.” I first published the above…
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Shel Israel
Shel Israel is the author of seven business books on disruptive technologies and has contributed to Forbes, FastCompany, Business Insider, ItSeemstoMe and other publications. He currently ghostwrites books and advises CEOs on communication strategies.
Why COVID-19 is Like Malware
At first, I didn’t pay much attention to COVID-19. I had just started a new communications project for a new corporate client, and I had my hands full. My assignment…
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Chatbots in the Post-Pandemic Era
V00:2300:27J Joseph Weizenbaum, a venerated pioneer at MIT AI Labs demonstrated the first chatbot in 1966. He named her Eliza after the leading character in My Fair Lady. In the play, Prof. Henry Higgins transforms…
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Life in the Post-Pandemic Era. Part 2: The Ubiquitous Workplace
When I began this series, I was focused entirely on how technology will impact life and work when the current pandemic ends. While this remains my central focus, two additional…
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Life in the Post-Pandemic Era
Part 1: The New Normal. Roger McNamee coined the term the New Normal in the 1990s. It was a timely and prescient title for a book about how rapid changes…
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Apollo Neuro’s Mission: Good Vibes for Good Health
I follow disruptive technologies wherever I can find them. Lately, I am finding more and more of it in healthtech and medtech where AI and AR seem to me to…
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Looking Glass Factory: Is it AR for the Rest of Us?
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…
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Introducing Human-Augmented AI
For more than 60 years, proponents of artificial intelligence have been divided—often acrimoniously—into two camps: autonomy vs. augmentation. Autonomy proponents advocate the digital replacement of human workers in the name…
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Zucked: When Algorithms Replace Ethics
I am about halfway through Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee. It’s going slow because what I am learning makes me so angry, sad or alarmed about my #1…
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