Is This a “FILE System”?

First-Person Singular Sharings by Peter Coffee, President, FfILoE

14 July 2026 Easy Measurements Are Too Shallow
7 July 2026 In This Second Decade Of The Age Of Stupid
30 June 2026 No One Would Greenlight This Movie
23 June 2026 Adaptation Is Not Resignation
16 June 2026 If It Can’t Be Insured, It Won’t Happen
9 June 2026 Asking Three AIs To Read These And Report
2 June 2026 Damage To Data Creates Unknown Knowns
26 May 2026 Worst Case Perhaps Less Bad – But Least Bad Case Getting Worse
19 May 2026 It’s Getting Wetter Out There – Or Is It?
12 May 2026 We Need To Stop Masking The Signals
5 May 2026 Throwing Fossil Fuels Out The (Overton) Window
28 April 2026 We’re Heading Into Uncharted Waters
21 April 2026 It’s Becoming Less About Oil; More About Water
14 April 2026 Global Is The New Local
7 April 2026 Renewable Energy Sources Are Seizing The High Ground Of “Reliable”
31 March 2026 Words Have Synonyms; Numbers Don’t
24 March 2026 Energy Imbalance Invites An ‘Alford Plea’
17 March 2026 Methane Action Repays Attention
10 March 2026 The Shapes Of Seas and Salt Lines
3 March 2026 Climate Impacts Create New Complexities
24 February 2026 Can Purse Strings Pull The Emergency Brakes?
17 February 2026 Simple Molecule; Complex Challenge
10 February 2026 Talent Pools Require Constant Replenishment
3 February 2026 Seeing A Truly Different Future Requires Different Tools
27 January 2026 Imagine A World Where We Can’t Hold A Winter Olympics
20 January 2026 Fossil Fuels Aren’t Looking Energetic
13 January 2026 “Uninvestable” May Be The Word Of The Year
6 January 2026 Let’s Speak For The Trees
30 December 2025 Boundary Conditions – Sometimes There’s Good News
23 December 2025 What’s The Plan For After The Win?
16 December 2025 Getting Our Heads In The Game
9 December 2025 Prices Are Signals: Don’t Mute Their Alarms
2 December 2025 See It, Measure It, Story It
25 November 2025 COP30 Weakens Carbon Commitment; Follow The Money?
18 November 2025 Characterizing Climate Change: It Takes Two Kinds of Number
11 November 2025 Making a Running Start

Slide Decks

18 May 2026 Planning Global Growth In a World that Defies Projection
13 April 2026 Conversational Computing: Freedom from the Flow Chart!

Other Writing

My posts on Diginomica (2013-2025)

Specifically,

4 February 2025 Three lenses for putting ‘the future’ in better focus
29 January 2024 Generative AI's appetites are costs that must be priced
21 August 2019 Surfing the shock wave
9 May 2018 You say you want a revolution (well, you know...)
15 January 2018 Of Smith, Marx and Heinlein
28 February 2017 Technology Embodied
31 January 2017 Out of the Workhouse

Videos

1 April 2026 Twenty Years of (R)evolution
16 December 2025 From Slide Rules To AI Agents: 50 Years In 60 Minutes
25 September 2025 Achieving AI “Agency” (plus Slides)
27 August 2025 Technology is a Community Achievement (Keynote – Mile High Dreamin’)
11 October 2024 Future Focus: A Look Beyond
8 November 2023 A Picture of What’s to Come (Keynote – Higher Ed Dreamin’)

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