Ari Herzog

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The New Small

Ari Herzog

I discussed my second book, The Next Wave of Technologies. Another book?”. My next book is called The New Small: How a New Breed of Small Businesses is Harnessing the Power of Emerging Technologies. Technology books can be dry. To get the book out, I had a number of options. This one won’t be. A New Model.

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Why the Kindle Fire is Not For Me

Ari Herzog

I did not want a Kindle to replace the experience of reading tactile books when I wrote about it in February 2009. When stacked up against other popular tablets, the Fire can’t compete. But a tablet as in a book reader? The majority of your comments agreed with me. The Kindle Fire is not for me. That the Fire has.

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Will Watson Win?

Ari Herzog

After watching the first round of robot Watson competing against humans Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings on Jeopardy! , I met Jennings two years ago on a book tour about his 2004 win. it is clear that the human-built algorithms that define the artificial intelligence sometimes provide the correct answer and sometimes not.

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