Patrick O'Shaughnessy

If you think about the process of employing technology in your businesses, what lessons have you learned there?

Because you said before, you're not a technologist, but you use a lot of technology.

I imagine that today, AI is probably on the front of your mind in some way, shape, or form if you're a user of technology.

How do you approach problems like this?

Okay, there's a toolkit out there in the world that keeps getting better.

It's pretty cool.

I get to use that stuff.

When do you know how to be an early adopter, a late adopter, quasi-technology business or

The atoms versus bits question for you in particular seems very interesting.

In your entire history of studying trends and making sure you don't miss the big ones,

What is the fool's gold that you've seen?

When does it seem sometime there might be a trend?

And what might be the reasons that something that initially appears to be the next big thing, in fact, is not?

When I was reading the tech chronology in your book, it gave me flashbacks to reading Ray Kurzweil's work back in my 20s or something.

The singularity is near.

What do you think of that notion?

Surely anyone that looks at this, if you put it on a visual chart, you see this very Kurzweilian exponential growth.

What do you think about this notion of the singularity?

When you're evaluating how to deploy a new technology, let's just take AI.

It's the one of the day for sure.