Curt Hopkins is a writer, editor, and editorial strategist.
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The Ethics of AI
The way we answer the call of our curiosity can affect the way we face the moral demands of our world. These days, AI is at the forefront of that concern.
Can data define a ghost?
Are there data points that can prove the existence of ghosts and other paranormal activity? If ghosts, ghouls, and creeps (oh my) have a presence in our physical world, there must be data that describes their intersection with our plane of existence.
Our Bodies, Our Shelves: The Physiology of Retail and Ecommerce
To really understand the nature of retail, we had best examine how our bodies work to lead us to decisions.
Innovation requires risk, and risk requires leadership
The price of doing nothing is steep, and playing it safe is anything but. The only way to create a culture of innovation is from the top down.
Delighting Customers with Data
At the end of each year, Spotify packages and presents data to its users with a marketing campaign called Spotify Wrapped.
Google Careers
I planned and wrote the content that explained Google's employee culture and its employment process.
How to Combat Cognitive Bias
Cognitive bias is a bit of a loaded term. It can be a problem for companies striving to become more data-driven, although many cognitive biases are the flip side of an often useful thought process.
How to prepare your business for AI
AI experts at Hewlett Packard Enterprise share insights about where artificial intelligence is headed and how to apply the technology in the business world.
Just-in-Time for Real Life
When Winter Storm Uri1 hit Texas in February of 2021, it crashed all the state’s systems. It did grave damage to the state’s unusual power grid, but it also stressed manufacturers, retailers, and customers.
What is Trustworthy AI and why is everyone talking about it?
OK, perhaps I’m exaggerating. Maybe not everyone has heard of it. So we’ll tell you what it is and why everyone should be, and probably soon will be, discussing it.
How to secure remote digital workspaces during and after the pandemic
Here are the most important factors in securing an enterprise in a remote access world.
Bootstrapping the data on COVID-19
How a group of Silicon Valley designers, epidemiologists, and public policy wonks created a tool for truth in their spare time
Beyond the greeting card: A visual interview
The creativity bunker of Jodi Wing, design director here at Ready State, is stuffed with a cityscape’s worth of whirring, sparking, and futuristic technology.
How Africa grew more than 200 local tech scenes
Before 2010, Africa had a handful of tech hubs. Botswana had its Innovation Hub; Pretoria, South Africa had its Innovation Hub; and there were a few more places that served to actively encourage the development of digital technology on the continent.
Lidar archaeology shines a light on hidden sites
The price of doing nothing is steep, and playing it safe is anything but. The only way to create a culture of innovation is from the top down.
Fighting for Freedom of the Keyboard
The number of blogs around the world has jumped from 5.4 million two months ago to 7.5 million today, according to the blog search engine Technorati.