Yes here’s a surprise new quarterly Wired / Tired / Expired jargon watch overviews, a mixed bag again. But much needed, it seems, as there’s much to promote or dis(mis)s.
First, for your viewing pleasure:
[Yes the UFO one again. Still prime FLlW space…!]
| WIRED | TIRED | EXPIRED |
| DeepMind / AlphaGo | Watson | “Robots” |
| For, discreetly not completely, winning at Go, taking the fame flag from this edition’s Tired contender. | The W of <fill in the blanks and colour the pictures>, e.g., medicine but now having extended so often into the mundane. See also many earlier posts of mine, as indication that the newness has been lost quite summarily. | Anyone who still thinks ‘robots’ as humanoid machines are the future, either writes for simpletons in a way that reveals the simpleton self or hasn’t understood in the first place. |
| Noam | Bernie | Donald |
| Still going, maybe not very strong but exposing the ridicule of it all, ever more clearly. | Hang in there, best-option of the world! | If elected, the world will have a seriously bad hair day. |
| Artificial Empathy | UX | MobileFirst design |
| Ow yeah! The end purpose of all AI explained: To sell us even more in ever more devious ways … | Not even Linux but the nonderstood follow-up of user-centered design. | Sometimes in a last-ditch effort even renamed mobile only design. Will go the way of the books, sense returning to common. |
| Flex mesh work | Start-up Culture / Creative Incubator | Silicon Valley |
| Project-oriented and anything staffing-wise goes. No strict ‘policies’, just getting the ultimate High-Q resourcing in whatever way available. | Oh yes all the petty boys and girls getting ripped off off their ideas, talent and energy. Dumped subsquently. | Does hardware XOR consumerist-data. Both old. |
| Crypto | Backdoors | Security |
| Let’s all do it, transparently, in privacy-friendly apps, or on top of the less so. | Will not work Period | As if still using the container phrase means anything other than confusion. |
| Drones versus commercial flight safety | Drone deliveries | Attack drones |
| OMG the Need For Regulation! Yes…, why not, exactly…? | Women have deliveries, men have balls but as this isn’t about cricket, drones have physical distribution potential. Some. | Yes, that’s the first and very foremost commmercial deployment of the category. Now what? |
| Do Your Thing | Disruption | The Uber Of |
| Just read Godin’s frustrum post and you’ll get it. | Of the right kind, not the ‘overthrow then what’ kind you m.r.n | The shorthand for / of the Clueless. |
| Caring for refugees | Expanding the EU | EU |
| Get real about the numbers, the risks. Humanity can fix this. Easily. | Expanding the mess exponentially, isn’t going to clean up. | Pronounced ‘Eeewwww!’. Why not ditch it, have a good cry, and start over again with a glacial-speed cultural integration first …!? |
OK, any suggestions for next quarter’s (!) edition ..?