I have been thinking about the impact of AI on health and what that will do to the concept of age. Usually when we talk about longevity, we think about how much longer people will live. Those of us who are more sophisticated about this topic break it down into health span and sick span, … Continue reading
Category Archives: about business
Goodbye Ben Rosen
These days, I seem to be saying goodbye to so many old friends who have left us. I guess at 81 I should not be so surprised, but it still makes me sad. Ben made it to 93. I last saw him in 2019. Ben Rosen is best known for being chairman of Compaq Computer, … Continue reading
A Photograph from 1996 with Remarkable People including Andy Grove
Starting at Andy and going clockwise, Dave Goldberg, Renee James, Sheri Herman, Ron Whittier, Hassan Miah, Matthew Cowan, Josh Geer, Avram Miller and Allee Willis. I recently learned that my old friend Sheri Herman had died. Sadly, the deaths of friends are becoming more frequent events these days. I don’t know exactly how old Sheri … Continue reading
Would You Like to Talk to My Digital Twin?
Today’s large language models remind me of banner ads in the early days of the internet. They are impressive, useful, and often surprising but I don’t think they represent where AI is ultimately headed. I’ve written before about forms of AI that will touch us much more personally. AI that feels less like a tool, … Continue reading
The Personal Climate Opportunity
The Earth is heating up very quickly, and the things we needed to deal with climate change, we did not do. Governments have talked, held conferences, made commitments and set targets. Some progress has certainly been made. But not enough, not nearly enough. In Paris in 2015, nearly every nation on Earth agreed to hold … Continue reading
Has Apple Entered Its Tail-Fin Era?
In the early days of the automobile industry, competition was driven by engineering. Faster engines, better suspensions, and more reliable cars won customers. But by the 1950s, something changed. America’s highway system had matured, and most cars were already fast enough for the roads people actually drove on. Competition shifted away from performance and toward … Continue reading
My memoir, The Flight of a Wild Duck, is now free on Substack — thanks to Claude Cowork.
https://avram.substack.com/p/the-flight-of-a-wild-duck-start-here It took me three years to write my memoir. The first year was spent doing research, the second writing, and the third editing. I enjoyed the process immensely. I had three audiences in mind while writing it. The first was people like me or parents of people like me who could not follow the … Continue reading
AI / Avram's Past / longevity
The Decline and Ascension of Avram Miller
My body is slowing down as my brain speeds up. It is quite a dilemma. It is understandable that my body would be slowing down. After all, I am 81 years old. But why is my brain speeding up? That is not to be expected. Now, I feel like I felt when I was an … Continue reading
Rethinking how I use Facebook
I’ve been on Facebook since it opened to anyone in September 2006. Before that it was limited to certain universities. Incredibly. I’ve been on the platform for almost twenty years. Throughout that time I’ve averaged about a thousand “friends.” There’s been churn, of course: people drop off, new ones entered. I had one rule I … Continue reading
Ted Turner: One of the Last of the Big Characters
When I learned that Ted Turner had died, I felt unexpectedly sad. I met Ted several times during the 1990s, mostly around the Allen & Co. conference in Sun Valley. The first time may have been at a party or event where he was with his then wife, Jane Fonda. Like many people, I already … Continue reading
