by Jac Fitzenz | Oct 20, 2023 | Human Value
By 2000 the market had survived the Y2K panic. Billions had been spent worldwide to prevent an information collapse when the computer clocks passed from 1999 to 2000. Fortunately, it didn’t happen. The story of human civilization is written in technology. It started...
by Jac Fitzenz | Oct 13, 2023 | Human Value, Informational
Artificial Intelligence: What is it? Where did it start? What is its future? More importantly, what are its limits? AI owes its life to the work of two men: Jack Kilby and Bob Noyce. In 1958, Kilby of Texas Instruments received a patent for miniaturized electronic...
by Jac Fitzenz | Sep 29, 2023 | Informational
There is almost a century of research on human motivation, but many people have misread it. The most important early research was the Hawthorne Project in the 1920s. It took place at the Western Electric plant outside of Chicago. The key finding was that the...
by Jac Fitzenz | Sep 22, 2023 | Informational
Having entered my 90th cycle this summer, taking on the topic of aging seems appropriate. I don’t have the chutzpah to speak for all aging people. Still, though I admit grudgingly I am no longer young (however you define that), I feel competent to discuss beliefs...
by Jac Fitzenz | Sep 22, 2023 | Informational
A number of famous actors have been quoted as saying on their deathbed, “Acting is easy, comedy is difficult.” No matter who said it, it is true that humor is a very sensitive phenomenon. It can be affected by time, circumstances, place and audience. During my career...
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