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Simon Wardley #EEA @swardley
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Only ten days until the internet is overloaded with "oooh", "aaah", "amazing" and "they've eaten my business model" ... it's that time of year when Bezos spins the roulette wheel and we discover which industry is about to go "pop" #reInvent2018
X : What are you going to?
Me : I'm not going to Re:Invent. Never been. But, if I was then ...

Alexa, Ask Jarvis to Create a Serverless App for Me
portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/connect/sessio…

Alexa, Where's My Car?
portal.reinvent.awsevents.com/connect/sessio…

... oh, it's a long list.
Personally, I would focus on areas combining serverless, voice, ML and Greengrass e.g. examples of conversational programming. In fact, anything in the focus area built with industrialised components i.e. the stuff you should just consume not try to build.
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X : How do you do research?
Me : University or commercial?
X : Is there a difference?
Me : In academia, people tend to do the research before they submit the proposal to do the research in order to fit in with some sort of scheduled research delivery process / gantt chart ...
... i.e. they spend the time "researching" actually doing research on something else which once completed is submitted as the next research proposal so they guarantee milestones of when it'll be delivered (as it is already done). It's all about hitting KPIs etc.
X : What about commercial research?
Me : Well, a lot isn't actual research in the sense of creating a new field. It's more applied research. So there tends to be less uncertainty. Other areas, well you just have to embrace the chaos. Of course, people still want Gantt charts.
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Lunch and a quick scan of NHS long term plan - longtermplan.nhs.uk/publication/nh… ... page 6 (summary) and rapid expansion of "personal health budget" - england.nhs.uk/personal-healt… - aka full scale privatisation of NHS under the cover of giving patients choice. Bye Bye NHS, you'll be missed.
... not that we really have an NHS, it is more of a franchise. Anyway, personal choice is the way to kill it off and embrace a market led insurance model. First health, police next - "Then he swiped his credit card to pay me for arresting him" - newyorker.com/humor/daily-sh…
.. but let us not sweat the little stuff like health, society, cohesion but focus on big things like staying in the EU. As we all know, the EC will save us. I can hear Juncker on the phone to May saying "you can't continue privatising the NHS, the EC is going to stop you". Lol.
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X : Predictions for 2019?
Me : Not my thing.
X : Go on.
Me : What are you after?
X : Acquisitions.
Me : Hmmm, a bucketload of tech acquisitions around Kubernetes. Expect big juicy deals.
X : It's the future?
Me : No. Mostly cash rich past giants with no future being clueless.
X : No market for Kubernetes?
Me : Some very profitable niches. Savvy tech buyer will wait until hype dries up before swooping in for tasty acquisitions around 2021-2022. This year will mainly be the clueless with big chequebooks. Hoping some friends will make it big this year.
X : The market doesn't operate to make your friends rich.
Me : Are you sure? It has been doing a good job of it - Cloud, Big Data, Containers ... it's always the same.
X : So, where is the future?
Me : I thought you were interested in acquisitions? They are not the same.
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Did you know that Wikipedia will be 18 on January 15 next year? We would love to talk to any journalists who'd be interested in writing about it, even if as a story it doesn't have a lot of what most journalists look for: 'conflict'.
When speaking to journalists about the anniversary, one told us that it wouldn't be interesting because it lacked conflict, and that to make it interesting, Wikipedia should pick a fight with another tech company. We said that Wikipedia's not really about conflict.
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One of the momentous things in dot-com history we are, uhh, "privileged" to witness in real time is Facebook's shift from Schumpeterian monopoly to Ricardian monopoly. In ten years, business school cases will be written about this stuff...
This isn't the first of course. Microsoft maneuvered itself into the same position ca. 1999, and the verdict back then was MS is irrelevant now that it missed the whole internet thing and is just flailing around, but MS never stopped being a hugely profitable key player.
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