Alan Morrison is an independent consultant and freelance writer on data tech and enterprise transformation. He is a contributor to Data Science Central with over 35 years of experience as an analyst, researcher, writer, editor and technology trends forecaster, including 20 years in emerging tech R&D at PwC.
As a former tech trends forecaster, I’m always pondering what we could achieve and how a better understanding of history could help us navigate the… Read More »Notable enterprise data trendsetters, 2002 – 2022
High-rise construction in the Denny Triangle area of Seattle. Source: Bruce Englehardt, Wikimedia Commons, May 2020 I’ve been looking for fresh use cases that tell… Read More »Building a hypergraph-based semantic knowledge sharing environment for construction
Semantic data consultant @EmekaOkoye made a couple of great points on Twitter back in November and early December 2021: “I am amused how some of… Read More »Lying to blockchains and other Web3 dilemmas
Manufacturing Line, Wikimedia Commons, 2014 Fakery certainly isn’t limited to news and social media. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) estimated in 2016… Read More »How data decentralization is already benefiting enterprises–and society
The State of the Union (SOTU) address is an annual event. On the night of the event, both houses of the US Congress, President and… Read More »Drone swarms, other weapons lethality trends and their data implications
The other day, I came across a Quora question I just had to answer. This is not unusual for me. It wasn’t that the question… Read More »Data intelligibility and the quest for mutually understood meaning
Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does. Peter Drucker In this series, Ive been describing a data democracy thats… Read More »A window of opportunity for data democracy (Part III of III)
publicdomainpictures.net Part I of this series described the data feudalism we currently have, why we have it, and how it might be possible for at… Read More »A window of opportunity for data democracy (Part II of III)
One of the unanticipated consequences of digitization has been data feudalism. A major reason data feudalism was such a surprise was that society just didnt… Read More »A window of opportunity for data democracy (Part I of III)
An orrey or planetarium designed by George Adams showing relative positions of the planets in relation to the sun, 1799, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2006691765. Part I of II… Read More »Why we shouldn’t expect a metaverse anytime soon (Part II of II)
