Author: BLB

Talk2BLB is B.L. Bradley, a medically retired technology analyst, business and solutions architect, and product manager with more than three decades of experience shaping and delivering deep-technology concepts, from the 1980s to 2015. She developed Lensing, a proprietary framework for rapidly assessing markets, industries, domains, and emerging issues, the Bradley Quadrant, for rapidly parting and precisely scoping product and backlog items, and is credited on projects ranging from award-winning health care design to precedent-setting cases pertinent to our shared privacy and communication freedoms. Bradley welcomes inquiries and works to client briefs. Project-based, retained, and contract engagements are available. You may connect with her on Eurosky at @Talk2BLB.Eurosky.Social.
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The Grocery Store Analogy update

I won’t bother couching this one in a nice story about going grocery shopping. Sometime in 2012, I wrote an article that served an analogy for why relying on Google and letting them profile your data was a horrible invasion of privacy, generally A Bad Idea, and ultimately would make…

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AI’s Consent Problem

The next great software transition could widen access to technological power. But if AI arrives as a tool imposed by a few companies, at the expense of workers and communities, the public may reject the bargain. Open-source AI offers a different future—if we keep it viable. A developer uses AI…

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