Forfatter: Anders Lisdorf
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Information System Modernization – The Ship of Theseus?
The other day I was listening to a podcast by Malcolm Gladwell. It was about golf clubs (which he hates). Living next to two Golf Courses and frequently running next on them this was something I could relate to. The issue he had was that they did not pay proper tax. This is due to a California…
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A Citywide Mesh Network – Science Fiction or Future Fact?
I recently finished Neal Stephenson’s excellent “Seveneves”. The plot is that the moon blows up due to an unknown force. Initially people marvel at the now fragmented moon, but due to the intelligent analysis of one of the protagonists it becomes clear that these fragments will keep fragmenting and eventually rain down on earth. The lunar…
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The Data Deluge, Birds and the Beginning of Memory
One of my heroes is the avant garde artist Laurie Anderson. She is probably best known for the unlikely hit “Oh Superman” in the eighties and being married to Lou Reed, but I think she is an artist of comparable or even greater magnitude. On one of her later albums is a typical Laurie Anderson song…
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Pragmatic Idealism in Enterprise Architecture
Being an enterprise architect I am not insensitive to the skyward gazes that project managers or developers make when being “assigned” an architect. The architect is frequently perceived as living in an ivory tower of abstraction in perfect disjunction from the real world. At best he is a distraction, at worst a liability The architect frequently lives…
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