My CODEX Moment

An Inflection Point I wrote my first line of code in 1981 on a Sinclair ZX80. It wasn’t compiled or linked, and persistence was tenuous at best. You wrote in BA...

Empty boardroom room with performance data on screens but no humans in attendance.

Zombie Governance

When Systems Outpace Judgment Modern institutions now make more consequential decisions in a single day than leaders once made in a year. Increasingly, those de...

Inflection Points

Although the articles on adamalthus.com represent my personal views on the intersection of technology, policy and economics I rarely write about the personal im...

The Jobs Are Not Coming Back

The NY Times published an interesting article today the impact of robotics on manufacturing jobs using Amazon’s purchase of robot maker Kiva Systems as an...