Ever wonder what it would be if none of the drivel being shown on television in the form of news casts, weather updates or traffic was beamed without a person being employed to read this stuff?
Its called Radio.
So it was one fine day when some marketeer came up with the idea to dress these dolts up and put a tie or skirt on them and show them to the viewers. Then there were viewers. Thus was born Television.
Not just everyday yokels but people who thought that watching these highly paid readers (with poor grammar and diction) was also entertaining. To the point that their hiring and firing and salaries and other trivia have itself become headline news.
Same with the actors in Hollywood. I mean how is what these people do, their sexual preference, their family history or their alcoholic dependencies a matter of national debate?
Does this sound like something a first world country should be doing?
This time for a tech conference in the realm of what else? AI. But applied to an oft neglected space called Knowledge Management. The latter is a community of practice that focuses on analyzing, organizing and making available reams of data that have been gathered over time by various functions within an organization for anyone in the company to utilize. This function or process is ripe for applying AI agents (or agentic AI framework) and optimize for better outcomes. It was informative. More rewarding was getting acquainted with folks who practice this craft as well as learning of what they see in the corporate or public sectors. Since the venue was Washington DC it also afforded me the chance to take evening strolls albeit the weather was trying. With wind chill in the single digit it still is a glamorous place to perambulate through history absorbing what this country has been through since its founding days. I was able to visit the place Lincoln was killed along with his monument t...
If you can get news cheap, or get cheap news, get it. If not, create it, seems to be the motto.
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