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AI · Technology · Organizations
The Governance That Arrived Late
Governance often arrives after the system has already taught people how to use it. By then, policy is not shaping behavior; it
AI · Technology · History
The Context Problem Nobody Talks About
In 1950, American forces landed at Inchon, South Korea, in one of the most successful amphibious operations in military history. The landing worked partly
AI · Technology · History
The Committee That Ate the Strategy
In the late 19th century, the American sociologist Amitai Etzioni observed a paradox in organizational decision-making: the more people involved in a
AI · Technology · History
The Analogy That Breaks a Problem Open
In the early 1980s, a biologist named George Rathbun was studying a small, endangered antelope called the golden-rumped elephant shrew. The animal lived in
AI · Technology · History
The AI That Learned from the Wrong Examples
During World War II, the US Army Air Forces asked Abraham Wald, a statistician at Columbia University's Statistical Research Group, to help them figure out
AI · Technology · History
The AI Adoption Problem
In the 1840s, Ignaz Semmelweis discovered that handwashing before delivering babies could reduce maternal mortality dramatically. In the Viennese maternity
AI · Technology · History
Teaching AI to Say No
In medicine, there is a concept called scope of practice. A paramedic can administer certain medications, perform certain procedures, make certain
AI · Technology · Organizations
Slow Down to Go Faster
In 1950, when a young chess player named Bobby Fischer began playing competitively, the standard approach to chess improvement was to study opening theory
AI · Technology · History
Building the Organization That Runs Overnight
On May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sent the first long-distance telegraph message from Washington to Baltimore: "What hath God wrought."
Philosophy · AI · History
Second-Order Questions
In August 1854, a physician named John Snow walked through the Soho district of London with a map and a theory. Cholera was killing people in the
AI · Psychology · Systems
What Calibrated AI Looks Like
In 1965, a meteorologist at the US Weather Bureau named Allan Murphy began studying a question his colleagues considered strange: not whether weather