Max Meyers

@themaxmeyers

“Gaining power employs means that degrade or brutalize the seeker, who wakes to find power purchased at the price of virtue lost” - Tuchman (March of Folly)

Washington, DC
Joined April 2012
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  1. Aug 7

    Next spring at hope to share with on how gov can use a vc model to spin in commercial innovation. Vote for the idea here

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    Aug 5

    "Despite FAANG talk of flying cars and Mars colonies, they still invest, according to Gruber and Johnson in 'new products, but not in basic science.'" Why we need a new federal commitment to R&D if we hope to keep up with China.

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    Aug 3

    This wave of AI hype will have dire consequences. Not just for our field. For public safety. Overselling the progress & capabilities of AI leads govts & companies to adopt shoddy "AI" solutions (which contractors are more than happy to sell). And blindly trust their predictions.

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    Aug 1

    Rule of thumb someone proposed to me recently: “If anyone says AI, 5G, smart cities or IoT, they either don’t know what they’re talking about or don’t care”. I think this is a pretty reliable indicator.

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  5. Jul 31

    “Company strategists could learn from their approach - for any given uncertainty about the future, to think in the short and long-term simultaneously”

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    Jul 29

    "The central task of the next few decades is to make the knowledge economy radically more inclusive.... We cannot have faith in a trickle-down economics.... Nor can we rely solely on retrospective redistribution if we want to build a more ‘human economy.’"

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  7. Jul 28

    “new venture capital initiatives could leverage governmental investment as seed funding to support high-risk, high-potential startups that explore novel approaches but may not yet be viable commercially“

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  8. Jul 28

    “5G is not merely a race to be won, nor should the objective of the United States be simply to deploy it as soon as possible ... 5G is not simply faster 4G, but rather creates a new paradigm for connectivity”

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  9. Jul 28

    Great summary of the strategic value - and imperatives - of 5G.

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    Jul 27

    "Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."

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    Jul 26

    This is excellent on the philosophical underpinnings of Artificial Intelligence and delivers a body blow to those who admire Aristotle--which would include me.

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    Jul 25

    "High School Debate is great training for Bad Asses everywhere." Check out my podcast with here.

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    Jul 25

    From using natural language and video to glean customer insights to understanding that data itself is the product, here’s how businesses are using AI right now.

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    Jul 24

    Interesting point. Most of the images that will be captured in future will never be seen by people.

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    Jul 23

    When you're a manager, you get proud of emails the same way you get proud of code.

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  16. Jul 22

    why futures studies can be even more valuable in “a world that defies prediction”: goal is not to chart a path to that future, but make better decisions today - what calls “zoom out, zoom” strategy

    Futures studies does not or should not pretend to predict “the future.” It studies ideas about the “images of the future”––which each individual (and group) has (often holding several conflicting images at one time) (Dator, 1995. What futures studies is, and is not)
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  17. Jul 22

    Shifting the govt role in innovation from challenges to missions: “Governments should be allowed to embrace their entrepreneurial spirit to steer the direction of innovation and economic growth”

    The title is great! I’m on a mission “to save capitalism from itself” — Quartz
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    Jul 20

    Our smartphones are 120 million times more powerful than the computers that guided Apollo 11. That has enabled us to progress from moon landings to cat videos.

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    Jul 22

    What a fascinating project to understand the evolution of what is being taught is n the classroom. The Open Syllabus Project maps out 6 million class syllabi.

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  20. Jul 21

    Some of the best thinking on the value drivers in (incl the core premise that computers can not only count, but see) | Computers that can see

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