“One cannot legislate trust in government. A lack of true leadership is a systemic, party agnostic problem in government, leading to apathy among citizens, regardless of their voter status.” InspirationalGovernmentMotivationTrust Author:Tom Golway
“The word visionary has become so overused to the point of irrelevance. We focus on a limited set of techno-celebrities when we need to build collaboration among people with unique life experience who offer diverse thinking for solving society’s big challenges. - Tom Golway” InspirationalSocietyDiversityVisionaries Author:Tom Golway
“To me empathy is the single most important trait of a leader. A leader needs to make others feel good about themselves, about their company and about the importance of their contributions to the good of the company. The reality is that no one is immune to bad days or even a longer stretch of challenges at work and/or in our personal lives. A great leader will recognize this and respond appropriately to ensure that the people working for them feel a sense of strength and hope. Tom Golway 2009” LeadershipEmpathyGolway Author:Tom Golway
“As society is inundated with complex issues, fatigue is taking over making simplicity of the message more attractive, especially when more effort is put into the amplification of the message then the research needed to find a path to viable answers. - Tom Golway” SocietyFake NewsMessagingReal Answers Author:Tom Golway
“Accelerating progress requires building on foundational innovations, or as Bernard of Chartres stated - “standing on the shoulders of giants”. In the fractured society we live in, the lack of civil discourse makes it difficult to find a stable place where “we are carried aloft and elevated by the magnitude of the giants”. - Tom Golway” ProgressSocietyAccelerationCivil Discourse Author:Tom Golway
“Winston Churchill once said "We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us". In a broader context, we have shaped our technology to achieve greater productivity, responsiveness and hyperconnectivity in the global community. The unintended consequence is that our technology is now playing a greater role in defining who we are by shaping our culture creating an "on-demand" society that is disconnected from our local communities.” SocietyInternetSocial MediaPhilosophy Of LifeHyperconnectivity Author:Tom Golway
“An enabling force of the Internet is hyperconnectivity in the global community. The unintended consequence is that we are allowing tech to govern who we are; leading to society which is disconnected from our local communities. - Tom Golway 2020” SocietyInternetEthicsDevolution Author:Tom Golway
“Human bias ranges from the destructive to what seems to be benign, but benign bias is still a dragging force on our humanity. How we manage our bias is the key to progressing as a society. - Tom Golway” Life LessonsHumanitySocietyEthics Author:Tom Golway
“Hyper-connected is used in the context of the Internet. COVID-19 shows we are hyper-connected in the physical world. COVID-19 is a wake-up call for the world to realize how dependent we are on each other. There will always be winners, but life doesn’t need to be a zero-sum game. - Tom Golway” CoronavirusCovid 19HyperconnectivityCovid 19 Life LessonsInterenet Author:Tom Golway
“When the #COVID19Pandemic is over, the world needs to come together and create a unified vision for public health. What we consider our public health strategy lacks vision, agility and innovation and is in serious need of disruption. The societal pause is an opportunity to develop a new vision that is consistent with the requirements of a hyper-connected mobile society.” Public Health2020Covid19 Quotes Author:Tom Golway
“Epidemiology is an ever evolving science since predictive models have significant sensitive dependencies on initial assumptions - Tom Golway” Chaos TheoryEpidemiologyEpigenetics Author:Tom Golway
“Agility and transformation isn't restricted to private industry. Governments need to transform maintain relevance to the rapid pace of change.” GovernmentTransformationDigitalizationAgility Author:Tom Golway
“It is becoming more difficult to find differentiated information on the Internet. Likewise it is becoming more difficult to contribute meaningful input because of the tendency of people only hearing recognizable voices. As this plays out, we will see more fracturing of society with people only hearing siloed information without an intelligent contrary view to provide balance.” SocietySocial MediaDiversity Of Thought Book:Planning and Managing Atm Networks Source: Planning and Managing Atm Networks
“Over the course of 2021/2022 we will see the current transformation initiatives and innovation around supply chains being applied to the science of #epidemiology to track the journey and morphing of infectious diseases. #COVID19 #PrecisionMedicine - Tom Golway” Covid19EpidemiologyPrecision Medicine Author:Tom Golway
“Cloud Native application developers should never know the physical infrastructure. Cloud is where they experience an infrastructure that is built for their specific service requirements. – Tom Golway” Cloud ComputingApplicationsCloud NativeServerless Book:Edge to Cloud Source: Edge to Cloud
“In periods of economic transformation inequality of opportunity is an unintended consequence of an unrestrained focus on wealth creation vs. value creation. Governments have repeatedly failed at proactively establishing the required agility to govern through inflection points. - Tom Golway” SocialismEconomics PhilosophyCaptialism Author:Tom Golway
“In the post-Covid world, the mathematics of chaos theory will experience a greater relevancy as it is applied across a broader set of science disciplines, especially epidemiology, precision medicine and climate science. - Tom Golway” Covid 19Chaos TheoryEpidemiologyPrecision MedicineClimate ScienceGolway Author:Tom Golway
“Simplistic gamification strategies applied to complex problems generally deliver unexpected results due to overlooked sensitive dependencies that can be leveraged to "game" the system. - Tom Golway 2020” Chaos TheoryGamificationGame Theory Author:Tom Golway
“We are nearing the end of this phase of the #tech boom. The next phase is starting - heterogeneous compute, infrastructure plasticity, etc. and that doesn't even include quantum. Tom Golway 2022” InfrastructureMetaversePlasticityQuantum ComputingHeterogeneous Compute Book:Edge to Cloud Source: Edge to Cloud
“Beyond Serverless is Infrastructure Plasticity where the underlying physical infrastructure is enriched and presented to the application as a Metaverse that is fully optimized to support the application’s service requirements,” InfrastructureMetaversePlasticity Book:Edge to Cloud Source: Edge to Cloud
“To date the hype around the #MetaVerse has been use in social media, while the real tech companies work on creating value in areas like precision medicine, manufacturing and other areas that could benefit from the concept of #DigitalTwins .” Social MediaMetaverseAugmented RealityPrecision MedicineDigital Twin Author:Tom Golway
“The issue I have with most of what is written about the Metaverse is that the conventional wisdom narrows the focus on the Metaverse to the next increment to social media or a the next step beyond a Zoom call. Where's the vision? Think beyond. When Boeing leverages a digital twin for airplane design/modeling, is that a form of the Metaverse? How about Da Vinci which is a robotic surgical system? Have you ever been on Flight of Passage at Disneyworld? Conventional wisdom might say no, those are not Metaverse. I say, forget conventional wisdom and forget the social media use case for Metaverse. The use cases are there to extract value from the current state of Metaverse technology, but they are not within the scope of the current conversations.” VisionInnovationMetaverseEmerging Technologies Author:Tom Golway
“The issue I have with the current discussions about the Metaverse is that the conventional wisdom narrows the focus on the Metaverse to the next increment to social media or the next step beyond a Zoom call. Where's the vision? Think beyond. When Boeing leverages a digital twin for airplane design/modelling, is that a form of the Metaverse? How about Da Vinci which is a robotic surgical system? Have you ever been on Flight of Passage at Disneyworld? Shouldn’t AI training (like for autonomous cars) be more like the Metaverse? Conventional wisdom might say no, those are not Metaverse. I say, forget conventional wisdom and forget the social media/office use case for Metaverse. The use cases are there to extract value from the current state of Metaverse technology, but they are not within the scope of the current conversations.” VisionInnovationMetaverseDigital Twin Author:Tom Golway
“There's an old saying don't blame the messenger if the message is bad. With #Cryptocurency the original message is still valid, but the messengers are what's bad. - Tom Golway” VisionInnovationCryptocurrencyDigital Currency Author:Tom Golway
“As a society we need to reflect on the events to date and realize that it is critical that a vision for the transformation of how we deliver public services is the top issue to be debated in all elections. This vision is needed at all levels of gov't. - Tom Golway” GovernmentVisionTransformationElection 2020 Author:Tom Golway
“Real #AI isn't about giving the right answers to our questions, its about answering the questions we don't know to ask.” VisionArtificial IntelligenceMetaverseGenerative AiThings To Think On Author:Tom Golway
“Saw 2 articles, one says we are in the "golden age of #AI", the other says "Demand for data scientists is booming and will only increase". If we really were in a golden age of #AI, then there would be no need for #DataScientists.” Artificial IntelligenceData Scientist Book:Hybrid IT and Intelligent Edge Solutions Source: Hybrid IT and Intelligent Edge Solutions
“Defining a job candidate who is a "cultural fit" is about the person being open minded, looks for the positive in others and knowing that life is too short to focus on differences. When interviewing someone, I ask them to describe something they are proud of and why. The best answers are a challenge they overcame using a unique approach.” LeadershipCorporate CultureHiring TalentJobseeking Author:Tom Golway
“As people find the balance with online and in-person socialization, the social net will enhance their lives and bring greater understanding to the world. People will maintain an ‘inner circle’ of relationships that will primarily be in person, while staying connected with people around the world through various forms of the social net. This will allow the average person to gain a greater understanding of the world from the eyes of other average people from different countries and cultures. Governments will need to adjust to this new world society.” —Tom Golway 2010” Social RelationsDigital SocietyHyperconnectivity Author:Tom Golway
“True progress in AI will come not from amassing more data, but from building smarter systems that understand the boundaries of their knowledge.” Artificial IntelligenceKnowledge QuotesEmerging Technologies Book:Entropy Reimagined: Order, Complexity, and Transformation Source: Entropy Reimagined: Order, Complexity, and Transformation
“The question is no longer what technology can do, but whether we can adapt fast enough to shape its trajectory before it shapes us beyond recognition. - Tom Golway” TechnologyTransformationArtificial IntelligenceEmerging Technologies Book:Epidemiology in a Hyperconnected World Source: Epidemiology in a Hyperconnected World
“Unleashing Reliable Insights from Generative AI by Disentangling Language Fluency and Knowledge Acquisition Generative AI carries immense potential but also comes with significant risks. One of these risks of Generative AI lies in its limited ability to identify misinformation and inaccuracies within the contextual framework. This deficiency can lead to mistakenly associating correlation with causation, reliance on incomplete or inaccurate data, and a lack of awareness regarding sensitive dependencies between information sets. With society’s increasing fascination with and dependence on Generative AI, there is a concern that the unintended consequence that it will have an unhealthy influence on shaping societal views on politics, culture, and science. Humans acquire language and communication skills from a diverse range of sources, including raw, unfiltered, and unstructured content. However, when it comes to knowledge acquisition, humans typically rely on transparent, trusted, and structured sources. In contrast, large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT draw from an array of opaque, unattested sources of raw, unfiltered, and unstructured content for language and communication training. LLMs treat this information as the absolute source of truth used in their responses. While this approach has demonstrated effectiveness in generating natural language, it also introduces inconsistencies and deficiencies in response integrity. While Generative AI can provide information it does not inherently yield knowledge. To unlock the true value of generative AI, it is crucial to disaggregate the process of language fluency training from the acquisition of knowledge used in responses. This disaggregation enables LLMs to not only generate coherent and fluent language but also deliver accurate and reliable information. However, in a culture that obsesses over information from self-proclaimed influencers and prioritizes virality over transparency and accuracy, distinguishing reliable information from misinformation and knowledge from ignorance has become increasingly challenging. This presents a significant obstacle for AI algorithms striving to provide accurate and trustworthy responses. Generative AI shows great promise, but addressing the issue of ensuring information integrity is crucial for ensuring accurate and reliable responses. By disaggregating language fluency training from knowledge acquisition, large language models can offer valuable insights. However, overcoming the prevailing challenges of identifying reliable information and distinguishing knowledge from ignorance remains a critical endeavour for advancing AI algorithms. It is essential to acknowledge that resolving this is an immediate challenge that needs open dialogue that includes a broad set of disciplines, not just technologists Technology alone cannot provide a complete solution.” TechnologyInnovationArtificial IntelligenceGenerative AiLarge Language Models Author:Tom Golway
“What we perceive as disorder is often the universe optimizing itself through feedback and adaptation - Tom Golway” ScienceEntropyOptimizationChaos Theory Book:Rethinking Entropy: Decaying or Optimizing Source: Rethinking Entropy: Decaying or Optimizing
“Chaos isn’t a lack of order; it’s a process where sensitive dependencies guide systems toward optimized configurations - Tom Golway” ScienceOptimizationChaos TheoryGolway Book:Rethinking Entropy: Decaying or Optimizing Source: Rethinking Entropy: Decaying or Optimizing