A “birdie” hole!

I have been enjoying the summer tremendously as you can tell from my tan if you happen to see me (otherwise, believe me!) 🙂 During my week off, I played golf for 6 of the 7 days, mostly with one of my kids. Such an enjoyable experience, especially because we had a couple of excellent rounds. I have also been taking some time to catch up on emerging technologies, especially one that I simply could not get my head around – bitcoin or generally, the idea of blockchains.

Whether it is technologies such as bitcoin or the gene editing story that is in the news recently, once again, the creativity and good intentions that are driving new innovations,  are being rushed without proper thinking of their implications. When I was younger I ignored that thinking part and was all excited about the advances and pooh-poohed the need for policies and governance for new and emerging technologies. But as I get older, I am beginning to shift my thinking on this a lot. (more…)