Patrick O'Shaughnessy

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.

Inside of a business, what are the tactics of doing that?

Is it pushed down to your team?

Is there a normal way that you run this process in some regular interval to say, are we using the technology of the day efficiently enough?

How do you actually do it?

Especially because your businesses have been so real world, heavy, CapEx heavy, asset intensive.

This is not a bunch of software flying around.