Category: Blog
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Nature is (not opposed to) Technology
There is an undercurrent in contemporary culture that plots nature in opposition to technology. According to this view, nature is pure, morally superior and in any way preferable, while technology is dirty, poluted, morally suspect and something to be approached only with apprehension. This is worrying and in effect a false dichotomy that may not…
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The enterprise architect as city planner
The role of the enterprise architect is elusive to most employees of an organization and sometimes to the enterprise architect him or herself. To understand why an enterprise architect is needed we have to approach it from another angle that of the city. The majority of humans today live in cities and it defines modern…
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Five trends for financial services for 2026
Going into 2026 it is interesting to reflect on what tendencies we saw in 2025 that will develop into major trends in financial services. In terms of digitalization, financial services is one of the most interesting industries since it is inherently an information industry. Basically banks are 100% digital companies by nature, a fate they…
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The Wittgenstein test – why LLMs are halucinating and lying
A case could be made that modern LLMs come very close to passing the Turing test. Unfortunately Turing’s test only makes clear whether a system is good enough at mimicking human language, not whether it actually commands the language. It is in fact more like an advanced parrot test. Turing was a genius mathematisian and…
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In Defense of Consulting
I recently rewatched Steve Jobs’ famous MIT Sloan School of Management talk from 1992 where he asks the audience: “How many from consulting? Oh, that’s bad. A mind is too important to waste. You should do something.” As a consultant this criticism feels visceral coming from someone you respect deeply. Jobs was unrelenting but he…
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Things we lost in the fire – Logical Data Modelling
When I started in IT a couple of decades ago, I had the good fortune to be in a company that happily built everything by themselves and primarily on the Mainframe. I know it makes me sound older than I really am, but it is true. One thing that characterised development on the mainframe was…
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The need for speed in technology
The French philosopher Paul Virillo was one of the first to point out the immanent and compelling logic of speed as a self perpetuating force shaping modernity whether it be in the context of warfare, transportation or communication. Speed forces itself on us and defines a new dimension through which power manifests itself. To account…
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AI’s reverse salient – enterprise integration
To understand the present situation it often helps to look at history even if our world and time seems so novel and so advanced that we can’t imagine anything in history could be similar to our current situation. Nevertheless, it seems worthwhile if not for anything other than to try to view the situation from…
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Is Superhuman Intelligence a Contradiction in Terms or Just an Ill-Conceived idea?
Much current concern revolves around when superhuman intelligence will come and what will happen to humanity once it does. As I have argued in my article The Hard Problem of AI and the Possibility of Social Robots, we are not presently making any progress on AGI because we have not yet started to address the…
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Large Language Models are dead, long live Small Language Models
The day when Artificial General Intelligence will suddenly flicker on as the manager turns on her computer ready to serve and allow the her to dispense with her minions and be left alone in silence with the coffee machine and the glorious view of an empty office in the low morning light is probably far…