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I write quasi-periodically to comment on current happenings in the tech community & to describe technology trends & their implications. These selections range in subject from tech trend prediction to descriptions of changes in the structure & culture of technological organizations. These selections are all from the last several years, but still relevant.

• Open Source Software: A Primer for Healthcare Leaders
  iHealthReports, California Healthcare Foundation. Prepared by Forrester Research & PostTechnical Consulting. 3/2006.
• If Search is the Answer, What’s the question? [pdf]
  A PostTechnical Strategist paper on search & the future of work (with respect & affection for Danny Bobrow, Xerox PARC, for his 1985 paper If Prolog is the Answer, What’s the Question? IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. 11(11). – perhaps the most insightful paper on the logic of AI languages ever published (with the possible exception of Doug Lenat’s paper on why AM worked…)
• What will Future Knowledge Workers be like? [pdf]
  A presentation on the changing nature of how we interact with information created for consulting clients & friends of pTr.
• The Implications of Business Communications Convergence [pdf]
  A 2005 expansion of my thinking on future trends that first appeared in a Strategist from March 2004.
• Work Process - Vision & Trends [pdf]
  A presentation done in 2004 on the future of work.
• Microsoft & Sun – There’s a Pony in Here Somewhere… [pdf]
  A Strategist Paper written in April 2004 after the ‘historic’ agreement between Microsoft & Sun Microsystems
• The Interrelationship of Organizational Stability & Organizational Memory – AAAS93 [pdf]
  A paper developed for a AAAS symposium on Industrial ethnography that I organized with Marietta Baba (then at Wayne State University)

Please contact me for other papers & presentations.